https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 29 May 2026 13:34:53 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/johnson-samuel/83923/ https://wist.info/johnson-samuel/83923/#respond Fri, 29 May 2026 07:36:12 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=83923 That every man would be rich if a wish could obtain riches, is a position which I believe few will contest, at least in a nation like ours, in which commerce has kindled a universal emulation of wealth, and in which money receives all the honours which are the proper right of knowledge and of virtue.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
Essay (1759-09-08), The Idler, No. 73
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