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Quote by Samuel Johnson
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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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. – Samuel Johnson

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A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. – Samuel Johnson

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Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. – Plato

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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family. – Theodore Bikel

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