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Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

Ihara Saikaku
People, Simplicity, Gone
"The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book I, ch. 4), 1688.
Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.