Quote by Samuel Johnson
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult. – Samuel Johnson

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I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise. – Samuel Johnson

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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage. – Samuel Johnson

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