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The highest point outward things can bring unto, is the contentment of the mind with which no estate can be poor, without which all estates will be miserable.

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Philip Sidney
Age: 31 †
Born: 1554
Born: November 30
Died: 1586
Died: October 17
Diplomat
Military Personnel
Novelist
Poet
Politician
Kent
England
Sir Philip Sidney
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Contentment
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Miserable
Highest
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