#contented

I wish that my husband's friends had left him where he is, happy and contented in retirement. ↗

— Anna Harrison

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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defence of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. ↗

— Thomas Hood

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I enjoy money. Not enough people in this world are happy. I'm determined to be contented, and having plenty of money from working makes it easier for me. ↗

— Karen Carpenter

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Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

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There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

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I live in fear of being a contented passenger. I'd rather get parts I can't play. ↗

— Michael Gambon

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Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate. ↗

— Louis XIV

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Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he has, loves only what he has not. People complain of the despotism of princes; they ought to complain of the despotism of man. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

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I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. ↗

— John Muir

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A contented mind is the best source for trouble. ↗

— Plautus

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