Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even...

Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Samuel Johnson Quote About Names, Giving, Civilized Nations: Plenty Is The Original Cause...

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