The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living. - Ihara Saikaku

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The first consideration for all, throughout life, is the earning of a living.

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About Ihara Saikaku

Ihara Saikaku (Japanese: 井原西鶴; 1642–1693) was a Japanese poet and creator of the "floating world" genre of Japanese prose (ukiyo-zōshi).

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Pen Names: 鶴永 • 二万翁 • 西鵬
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For each of the four hundred and four bodily ailments celebrated physicians have produced infallible remedies, but the malady which brings the greatest distress to mankind — to even the wisest and cleverest of us — is the plague of poverty.
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