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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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