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Quote by Samuel Johnson
Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest bl

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. – Samuel Johnson

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What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known. – Samuel Johnson

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Wise Words
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Samuel Johnson
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Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free. – Samuel Johnson

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Writing
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Samuel Johnson
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Doing cartwheels in the green grass of happiness and skipping high towards the blue heavenly skies of joy! – Terri Guillemets

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Sitting behind the bench at games is the hardest thing Ive ever had to go through because basketball is really most of my happiness. So when I cant go out there and exert energy and have fun and things like that, it kind of puts everything else into perspective. – Chris Webber

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Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness. – David Sarnoff

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I think I am missing a gene that most people have to enable them to feel happiness about success and these kind of things. – Bennett Miller

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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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its a sex object if youre pretty and no love or love and no sex if youre fat – Nikki Giovanni

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I think clothes should make you feel safe. I like clothes you want to go to sleep in. I sometimes stand in front of a mirror and change a million times because I know I really want to wear my nightgown. – Gilda Radner

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Speed kills colour… the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray. – Paul Morand

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