All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.Samuel Johnson
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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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We are to consider mankind not as we wish them, but as we find them, frequently corrupt and always fallible.
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