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Learn what life requires,
How little nature needs!

— Lucan

Discite, quam parvo liceat producere vitam,
Et quantum natura petat.

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Compare: "But would [men] think with how small allowance Untroubled nature doth herself suffice", Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, B. I, C. 9, st. 15.

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