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taxlady ([personal profile] taxlady) wrote2009-08-24 04:33 pm
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Quote of the day

The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.
-- Samuel Johnson

[identity profile] americanstd.livejournal.com 2009-08-25 04:23 pm (UTC)(link)
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
-H.L. Mencken

[identity profile] taxlady.livejournal.com 2009-08-25 05:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Does that mean you disagree with the quote?