Quotation by

Samuel Johnson

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson is saying that to avoid poverty, you should always spend less than what you earn. He believes that being poor limits your freedom and makes it hard or impossible to live by certain moral principles.

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