“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. He that labors in any great or laudable undertaking has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy.To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.” ~Samuel Johnson~
Samuel Johnson – highest human felicity
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