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.
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.Samuel Johnson
Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotchman happy.
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The expense is damnable, the position is ridiculous, and the pleasure fleeting.
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We took tea, by Boswell's desire and I eat one bun, I think, that I might not be seen to fast ostentatiously. When I find that so much of my life has stolen unprofitably away, and that I can descry by retrospection scarcely a few single days properly and vigorously employed, why do I yet try to resolve again I try, because reformation is necessary and despair is criminal. I try, in humble hope of the help of God.
Samuel Johnson
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