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Often When He Was Looking On At Auctions He Would Say, "How Many Things There Are Which I Do Not Need!
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Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things
there are which I do not need!"
-- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD)
-- Socrates, x
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