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The poorest man in Arcadia, pronounced by Apollo to be far happier than Gygēs, because he was “contented with his lot.”
“Poor and content is rich and rich enough;
But riches endless are as poor as winter
To him who ever fears he shall be poor.”
Shakespeare: Othello iii. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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