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"I am boring, but I'm ok with it. I'm the anchor, the shoulder...I'm an average man...with a truly extraordinary wife."
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"True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."
"If I continually focus on what I don't have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it's completely full."
"On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
"It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace."
"Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself."
"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."
"It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more."
"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."
"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
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"Pretty?' I said, swivelling in the driver's seat to face him, 'you want to ask me out because I'm pretty?' 'Is there a problem with asking you out because you're pretty?' 'I think you blew it,' said Tiger with a grin. 'You should be asking her out because she's smart, witty, mature beyond her years and every moment in her company makes you want to be a better person - pretty of face should be at the bottom of the list.' 'Oh, blast,' said Perkins despondently. 'It should, shouldn't it?"
"Now and again. Good residency is about having the power to ask someone to do something, but not necessarily exercising it."
"A surfeit of information often hides an untruth, he said, with annoying clarity."
"I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics."
"I'm sure it's not all hot buttered crumpets out there in the breathing world of asphalt and heartbeats."
"Those that can be troubled to muse upon the meaning of life are general disappointed when they figure it out."
"What is without dispute...is that the readers need [the BookWorld] just as much as we need them-to bring order to their apparent chaos, if nothing else."
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