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"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency."

"Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either."

"He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own."

"If you allow men to use you for your own purposes, they will use you for theirs."
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"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."

"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."

"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."

"Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing."

"My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more."

"One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment."

"Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire."
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