All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
Johnson, Samuel
Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it.
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.
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