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We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

Samuel Johnson
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Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 6 Apr. 1781)
We are not here to sell a parcel of boilers and vats, but the potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.