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Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous… — C.S. Lewis
Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. — Dorothy Parker
Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He asked only to be 'some one,' like everybody else. But he was too… — Gaston Leroux
If you look for perfection, you'll never be content. — Leo Tolstoy
I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it. — William Nicholson
These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began- Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite,… — Rudyard Kipling
Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I prayed a sincere and… — Charlotte Bronte
The measure of happiness is merely the difference between expectations and outcomes. It is not concerned with what one possesses â€“ it is concerned with… — Cecilia Dart-Thornton
We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit… — Nicholas Sparks
I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on. — Eleanor Roosevelt
Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who… — Khalil Gibran
There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or… — Azar Nafisi
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than… — Samuel Johnson
True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth. — Umberto Eco
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We must… — W. Somerset Maugham
Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about. — Cory Doctorow
I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen. — Truman Capote
There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content… — Lin Yutang
Dreams disdain fine lines and finishing touches on landscapes â€“ they content themselves with thick but representative brushstrokes. — Machado de Assis
Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion,… — Terence McKenna

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