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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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. – Samuel Johnson

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There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex. – Samuel Johnson

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Age
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No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability. – Samuel Johnson

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Im the type whod be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasnt going to. Im the type whod like to sit home and watch every party that Im invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. – Andy Warhol

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Ive been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. Ive won some awards and Im very proud of those accomplishments. But I dont think theres anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle. – Bobby Orr

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I maintain the rather old-fashioned view that this is my work and its in the public arena, but that doesnt entitle everyone to know what happened at home before coming here. – Francesca Annis

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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others. – Samuel Butler

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I had never been able to get a car that said how much I cared about the environment until I drove electric. – Alexandra Paul

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