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| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 2073 |
| AUTHOR: | Thomas Dekker (1570–1632) |
| QUOTATION: | A wise man poor Is like a sacred book that ’s never read,— To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead. This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Old Fortunatus. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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