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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

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson

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Libraries
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When any fit of gloominess, or perversion of mind, lays hold upon you, make it a rule not to publish it by complaints. – Samuel Johnson

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Complaining
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Friendship, like love, is destroyed by long absence, though it may be increased by short intermissions. – Samuel Johnson

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Friendship
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If success is a habit, it is a hard one to acquire. – Mason Cooley

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Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude. – Michelle Obama

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I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances. – Lee Ann Womack

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Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Success

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For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want – a life in peace. – King Hussein I

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Poetry is a mere drug, Sir. – George Farquhar

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I never guess. It is a shocking habit — destructive to the logical faculty. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Im bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is In 15 minutes everybody will be famous. – Andy Warhol

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