Samuel Johnson: Want of Superfluities

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Samuel Johnson Money Quote saying in nature, only lack of necessities make us poor, but society names lack of the superfluous as poverty. Samuel Johnson said:
 
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities Quote
 

“Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities” — Samuel Johnson

 

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