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• Avarice is always poor. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
• Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodie
  he lights of a picture are created by the shade...
• Ambition is in fact the avarice of power.
• Extreme avarice is always mistaken; there is no passion which is oftener further away from its mark, nor upon which the present has so much power to the prejudice of the future.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• Dictionaries are like watches, the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true.
  Samuel Johnson ['Boswell's Life of', 1784]...
• When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of oratory, he answered, "Actio
  and which was the second, he replied, "Action;" and which was the third, he still answered, "Action....
• Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. -- Samuel Johnso