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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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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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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them. – Samuel Johnson

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Mankinds true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. – Milan Kundera

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Even as a little child, Ive always had that comedian kind of attitude. – Etta James

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I do support a sex-positive attitude for young people. Use condoms, thats important. I love the idea that promiscuity can be healthy but its got some dodgy crevasses. Ooh, thats a bad reference! But its got some dangerous cavities there. You know what Im saying. – Rachael Taylor

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As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really werent in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude. – Kathryn Stockett

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I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. – Pierre Beaumarchais

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