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Quote by Samuel Johnson
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happines

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. – Samuel Johnson

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We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. – Samuel Johnson

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Happiness
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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. – Samuel Johnson

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Hope
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There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. – Samuel Johnson

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Country
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude. – Imelda Marcos

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I have the same attitude with work – I like to go to work, I like to work really hard I, like to give everything my all, I like to try things that are new, you know. – Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

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There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. – Publius Terentius Afer

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A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, At my age, I dont even buy green bananas. – Claude Pepper

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The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user. – John Tillotson

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It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. – Friedrich von Schiller

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Homey dont quit. What else are you gonna do? Its like those guys in the cartoon they get up in the morning, check the clock and fight all day and after its over they check the clock and go home. Thats how it goes. – Chubby Checker

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