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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, a

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger. – Samuel Johnson

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson

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Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty. – Samuel Johnson

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