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When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

~Samuel Johnson

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Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

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All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

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What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

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The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

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To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Author

Born: September 18th, 1709

Died: December 13th, 1784

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