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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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Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. – 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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My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. – Mark Twain

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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. – William James

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We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didnt think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. – Dick Gregory

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