Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. - Samuel Johnson
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Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
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Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [7 September O.S.] – 13 December 1784) was a British author, linguist and lexicographer. He is often referred to as simply Dr. Johnson in the history of literature and is regarded as the greatest man of letters in English history.
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Great Moralist
Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.
No man was more foolish when he had not a pen in his hand, or more wise when he had.
How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.
