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. (Thomas Dekker)

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.

Thomas Dekker

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