“All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, shew it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.” — Samuel Johnson
Quotations
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“An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it.” — Don Marquis
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“Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.” Francis Bacon
Misc
- Q is the only letter that does not appear in any U.S. state name.
- 6455 = (64 – 5) × 5
- North Dakota’s record high temperature (121°F) is higher than Florida’s (109°F).
- UNNOTICEABLY contains the vowels A, E, I, O, and U in reverse order.
- “An odd thought strikes me: We shall receive no letters in the grave.” — Samuel Johnson
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“Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.” — Robert Benchley
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“Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.” — Abraham Lincoln
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“Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, and theology makes them sinful.” — Martin Luther
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“Honesty is praised and starves.” — Juvenal
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“Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.” — Socrates
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“Where there’s a will there’s a won’t.” — Ambrose Bierce