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"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."
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"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."
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"I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them."
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"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."
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"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy."
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"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."
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"Be content to seem what you really are."
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"There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about."
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"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."
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"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."
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"How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing."
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"An empire founded by war has to maintain itself by war."
War
"The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver."
Moderation
"Liberty is the right to do what the law permits."
Law
"If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, and that is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are."
People
"Success in the majority of circumstances depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
Success
"Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies."
Luxury
"The less men think, the more they talk."
Man
"In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed."
Success
"Lunch kills half of Paris, supper the other half."
Eating
"False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared."
Happiness
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