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"A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." -
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Top 5 quotes from Samuel Johnson
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
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"Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappointment."
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
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"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
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"Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."
"Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth."
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