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Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.
Jean de La Fontaine
"La Matrone d'Ephèse", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 64-65, 1922.
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