#content

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent. ↗

— William Watson

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But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content. ↗

— Anne Boyd

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When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

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Yet better for one of my nature to have it that way than to have life a peaceful, placid flow of quiet contentment. I must have days of rushing excitement. ↗

— Dawn Powell

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People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value. ↗

— Walter Isaacson

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The vast concourse of people who had assembled to witness the triumphant arrival of the successful travellers was of the lowest orders of mechanics and artisans, among whom great distress and a dangerous spirit of discontent with the government at that time prevailed. ↗

— Fanny Kemble

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Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. ↗

— Charles Kingsley

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