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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficult

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

You cant be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute whos for you and whos against you. – Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson
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Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most. – Samuel Johnson

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Evangelism
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Samuel Johnson
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For me, I dont feel it is a success in the career to be the pretty woman career success comes from being characters who tell us something about the truth. – Emmanuelle Beart

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A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away. – Ellen Glasgow

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Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles. – Walter Cronkite

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