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O, reason not the need: our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man’s life is cheap as beast’s.

William Shakespeare on money

King Lear (c. 1606), Act II, Scene IV, spoken by Lear

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