Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Comment (7 Dec 1782)

In James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791)

 
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