This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,— Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.
Samuel Johnson
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A quote by Samuel Johnson
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London. Line 176.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.
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This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd,— Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.
Samuel Johnson
London. Line 176.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.