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

— Samuel Johnson

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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#daughters #delight #done #planets #teach

A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#him #inclination #just #leads #little

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

— Samuel Johnson

#been #conscious #inferiority #italy #man

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

— Samuel Johnson

#evidently #evil #great #great evil #poverty

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

— Samuel Johnson

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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#literary #literary men #men #over #parole

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#every #every man #him #knock #man

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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