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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Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. – Samuel Johnson

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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. – Samuel Johnson

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Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them. – B. R. Ambedkar

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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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Socialism values equality more than liberty. – Dennis Prager

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In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays, 1950

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We lovd, and we lovd as long as we could
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Do you know what a soldier is, young man? Hes the chap who makes it possible for civilised folk to despise war. – Allan Massie

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Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence. – Louis Pasteur

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