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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief hap

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain. – Samuel Johnson

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As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. – Samuel Johnson

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Avarice is generally the last passion of those lives of which the first part has been squandered in pleasure, and the second devoted to ambition. He that sinks under the fatigue of getting wealth, lulls his age with the milder business of saving it. – Samuel Johnson

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Im not the type of guy who enjoys one-night stands. It leaves me feeling very empty and cynical. Its not even fun sexually. I need to feel something for the woman and entertain the vain hope that it may lead to a relationship. – Ben Affleck

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Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother. – Anne Lamott

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I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom. – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame. – Robert Mapplethorpe

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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. – Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 4

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If you say, Im for equal pay, thats a reform. But if you say. Im a feminist, thats a transformation of society. – Gloria Steinem

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