Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
- Samuel Johnson1
- The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol IV, Letter to James Boswell, December 7, 1782, p. 494 [↩]
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