Ihara Saikaku quote: If we live by subhuman means we might as well...

If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.

Ihara Saikaku

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Saikaku Ihara (1959). “The Japanese Family Storehouse: Or, The Millionaire's Gospel Modernised. Nippon Eitai-gura, Or Daifuku Shin Chōja Kyō (1688)”, Cambridge University Press

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