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Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. (Proverbs 23)

Plutarch on Pursuit of Money and Children

Good people, what are you after? Why in such deadly earnest about making money, while troubling so little about the sons to whom you are to leave it?’

Plutarch
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