Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
Johnson, Samuel
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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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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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Words are but the signs of ideas.
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