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Quotation from A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“the commonest things, such as lie within everybody's grasp, are more valuable than the riches which so many mortals sigh and struggle after.”
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Golden Touch (Project Gutenberg eBook #32242)
After Midas has chosen bread, water and his daughter over the Golden Touch, the stranger tells him that he is wiser than he was.
Citation: "the commonest things, such as lie within everybody's grasp, are more valuable than the riches which so many mortals sigh and struggle after." — Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, The Golden Touch (Project Gutenberg eBook #32242). (id a-wonder-book-q2)
Virtues: Temperance
Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
