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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson

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Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others… This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. – Samuel Johnson

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Wine
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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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Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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I dont remember deciding to become a writer. You decide to become a dentist or a postman. For me, writing is like being gay. You finally admit that this is who you are, you come out and hope that no one runs away. – Mark Haddon

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Hope

Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work. – Jeanne Moreau

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Hope

I think its a mistake to ever look for hope outside of ones self. – Arthur Miller

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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go. – Laura Riding

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Meditation is to know oneself as one is. It is see our real face with out any mask. – Author Unknown

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Danger, the spur of all great minds. – George Chapman

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The true meaning of feminism is this: to use your strong womanly image to gain strong results in society. – Pamela Anderson

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