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Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate. ↗

— Louis XIV

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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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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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To be completely woman you need a master, and in him a compass for your life. You need a man you can look up to and respect. If you dethrone him it's no wonder that you are discontented, and discontented women are not loved for long. ↗

— Marlene Dietrich

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The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

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And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before. ↗

— Hart Crane

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My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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