Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of succ...

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.

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Samuel Johnson

English poet, biographer, essayist, lexicographer

September 18th, 1709 - December 13th, 1784

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