Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties,…

Samuel Johnson
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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. ✨ Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1825). The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Adventurer and Idler, p.108
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