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September
2009
September
2009
Happy 300th Birthday Samuel Johnson!0
Good ole SJ turns 300 today!
“Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment, that we are always impatient of the present.” -Rambler 207
“Thus it comes to pass, that our desires always increase with our possessions; the knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed, impairs our enjoyment of the good before us.” -Adventurer 67
“To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next, is to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; and if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.” -Adventurer 67