A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation

Samuel Johnson
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  1. It is necessary to hope... for hope itself is happiness.

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  4. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

  5. Whoever thou art that, not content with a moderate condition, imaginest happiness in royal magnificence, and dreamest that command or riches can feed the appetite of novelty with perpetual gratifications, survey the Pyramids, and confess thy folly!

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