He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do any thing.
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Samuel Johnson Quote
“All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.”
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