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Gives Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.
- Wine gives a man nothing. It neither gives him knowledge nor wit; it only animates a man, and enables him to bring out what a…
- Nature never gives everything at once.
- Wine gives great pleasure; and every pleasure is of itself a good. It is a good, unless counterbalanced by evil.
- Advice, as it always gives a temporary appearance of superiority, can never be very grateful, even when it is most necessary or most judicious. But…
- Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often…
- We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,…
- Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.
- Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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