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Samuel Johnson

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

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Samuel Johnson is saying that every reason people give to claim poverty is not harmful actually proves that poverty is very harmful. In other words, attempts to defend poverty only highlight how serious and bad it really is.

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