Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.…

Samuel Johnson
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1798). Dr. Johnson's Table Talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners; with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Dr. Boswell's Life of Johnson, p.230
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