Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Samuel Johnson
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Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.
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Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
- Samuel Johnson