Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Samuel Johnson
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Your levelers wish to level down as far as themselves, but they cannot bear leveling up to themselves.
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It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.
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