Quote by Samuel Johnson
Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon a

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. – Samuel Johnson

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If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman. – Samuel Johnson

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Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. – Samuel Johnson

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There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just dont pan out. – Laurence Tribe

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The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential. – Betty Buckley

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Such security is equal liberty. But it is not necessarily equality in the use of the earth. – Benjamin Tucker

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Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition. – Mercy Otis Warren

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