I have found you an argument; But I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
~ Samuel Johnson
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Understanding →
Objections →
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
~ Samuel Johnson
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The fountain of content →
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happines by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
~ Samuel Johnson
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