Samuel Johnson Quotes

Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.

Samuel Johnson

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• Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Passion
  • Ambition