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"It is no surprise that the first and always unwelcome message of male initiation rites is LIFE ' IS ' HARD."
"There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades."
"Few great things are achieved effortlessly."
"We, the beggar class, have little to lose and our expectations are, at best, modest, and when we suffer, it seems we suffer to the depths, for there is nothing in our lives nor in our souls to buoy our hope. Nothing in the way of the blackness. It sinks to the bottom as the lead weight that is despair. We look forward such a short distance that our spirit is myopic, not to be corrected by any lens within our world."
"By three in the afternoon, after one Bintang too many, I was absolutely smashed and feared that trying to stand may end badly."
"The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong."
"Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life."
Explore more quotes by Samuel Johnson
"[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."
"When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best."
"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."
"I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another."
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