Samuel Johnson Quote

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.


The Beauties of Johnson (ed. 1782)


Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities.