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Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. ↗

— Orlando Gibbons

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Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. ↗

— James Robinson

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All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth. ↗

— Alfred Marshall

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Civilization consists in the multiplication and refinement of human wants. ↗

— Robert Millikan

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The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. ↗

— Sarah Bernhardt

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The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek. ↗

— Claude Bernard

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Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions. ↗

— Thomas Couture

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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ↗

— Lin Yutang

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