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Obtaining Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment.
- It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own…
- We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the…
- Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining…
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- Humor is a means of obtaining pleasure in spite of the distressing effects that interface with it. — Sigmund Freud
- Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode… — Abraham Lincoln
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- The study of taxonomy in its broadest sense is probably the oldest branch of biology or natural history as well as the… — Richard E. Blackwelder
- Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. — Henry David Thoreau
- Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by… — Joseph Butler