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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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. – Samuel Johnson

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Reality
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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. – Samuel Johnson

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Country
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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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We cannot get grace from gadgets. In the Bakelite house of the future, the dishes may not break, but the heart can. Even a man with ten shower baths may find life flat, stale and unprofitable. – J.B. Priestley

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When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. – Confucius

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

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You cannot feed the hungry on statistics. – Heinrich Heine

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Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism. – Jack Kemp

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