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Quote DB :: Authors :: Samuel Johnson :: View Quote View Quote "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization." - Copy to Clipboard   --  Samuel Johnson Listed in: Money Add Quote To Your Quote List   Rating: 2.75  Rate Quote 4 votes submitted Your Name: Friend's Email: Sponsored Links Top 5 quotes from Samuel Johnson "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." "A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience." "A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself." "Sex: the expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting." "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." Top 5 quotes from Money "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world." "It made me sick to watch those businessmen applaud Welles during the 1975 AFI tribute, when you know that the next day if he asked any one of them for money, they'd say, 'We'll let you know.'"" "What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class." "The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it." "Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty."

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