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Quote by Samuel Johnson
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction

There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. – 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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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. – Samuel Johnson

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