Quote by Samuel Johnson
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the en

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution. – Samuel Johnson

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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost, must always end in pain. – Samuel Johnson

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The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. – Samuel Johnson

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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks. – G. K. Chesterton

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I fantasize about having a manual job where I can come home at night, read a book and not feel responsible for what will happen the next day. – Jodie Foster

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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if Id have to put back the Charmin. We still dont have a dishwasher. My mom has done all these gardens so now my house looks like the garden shack in the middle of Versailles. – Rachael Ray

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The day I finished Twilight, I came home and started bulking up. For New Moon, Im 30 pounds heavier than I was in Twilight. – Taylor Lautner

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I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots. – Elayne Boosler

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I would like to work with anyone in the business who wants to give respect back to the Jamaican vibe. – Sean Paul

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We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. – George Orwell

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. – Ezra Pound, “The Instructor: II,” Chapter Eight, ABC of Reading, 1934

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