"But suppose your dæmon settles in a shape……" — Philip Pullman

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• He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another. — Aesop
• Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. — Thomas Carlyle
• What makes us so often discontented with those who transact business for us is that they almost always abandon the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
• All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever… — George Orwell
• The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to… — Thomas Jefferson
• Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means… — Rajneesh
• Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status?… — Robert H. Schuller
• Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only… — Joseph de Maistre
• The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter.… — Arthur Lynch
• Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds,… — Neil Gaiman
• God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about… — Douglas Wilson
• Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a… — Thomas Carlyle

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