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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none sho

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality. – Samuel Johnson

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The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef love, like being enlivened with champagne. – Samuel Johnson

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. – Samuel Johnson

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Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man. – Samuel Johnson

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The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. – Aristotle

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As experience widens, one begins to see how much upon a level all human things are. – Joseph Farrell

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