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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evi

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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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. – Samuel Johnson

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