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Quote card: Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

“Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.”

Samuel Johnson, letter to James Boswell (1782)

Johnson's reason for careful saving. A small emergency fund buys freedom when a job ends.

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