The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence. ✨ Samuel Johnson,…

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The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Roger H. Lonsdale (2006). Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets, p.117, Oxford University Press
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