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"Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was."
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"It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more."

"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."

"I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along."

"He is rich that is satisfied."

"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."

"To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things ."

"To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in the world."

"Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have."

"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
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"We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure."

"It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away."

"It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained."

"May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?"

"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that."

"When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people."
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