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The discontented man finds no easy chair. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up. ↗

— Chief Joseph

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People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

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Love...who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content. ↗

— Lauren Conrad

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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. ↗

— Akhenaton

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Let your confidence reflect your contentedness. ↗

— Criss Jami

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He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another. ↗

— Aesop

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