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Quote by Samuel Johnson
It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence

It is generally agreed, that few men are made better by affluence or exaltation. – 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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Luxury… corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness. – Rousseau, The Social Contract, 1762

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So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. – Henry George, Progress and Poverty, 1879

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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions. – Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950

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As prosperity is promoted, thinking is demoted. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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