Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives t…

Samuel Johnson
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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, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752
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