"You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson),……" — Samuel Johnson

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• Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. — Pearl Bailey
• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. — Joseph Addison
• Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the… — Phillips Brooks
• To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but… — Akhenaton
• Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
• How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the… — Orison Swett Marden
• Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. — Thomas Carlyle
• In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low,… — Henry Highland Garnet
• What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something… — Dorothy Gilman
• Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you… — John Hay
• Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find?… — George Bernard Shaw

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