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Gold Before Goodness.
By Robert Herrick
How rich a man is all desire to know;
But none inquires if good he be or no.
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Gold before goodness. Printed in Witts Recreations, 1650, as A Foolish Querie. The sentiment is from Seneca, Ep. cxv.: An dives, omnes quærimus; nemo, an bonus. Cp. Juvenal, III. 140 sqq.; Plaut. Menæchm. IV. ii. 6.
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