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“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.”

Samuel Johnson · Hope

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Samuel Johnson

Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.

Truth

Samuel Johnson

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Equality

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All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Loneliness