Mine is a piece from The Complete Angler by Isaak Walton. It kind of says how people with money have no 'real life' as they are always worried about the amount they have. I know people like that. Very hard to get along with. Here it is:
Sir, there be many men that are by others taken to be serious and grave men, whom we contemn and pity. Men that are taken to be grave, because nature hath made them of a sour complexion; money getting men, men that spend all their time, first in getting, and next, in anxious care to keep it; men that are condemned to be rich, and then always busy or discontented: for these poor rich-men, we Anglers pity them perfectly.
Isaak Walton 1653
2007-07-27
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