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#contented

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You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.


Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards


#cleaning #contented #cooking #make #need

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


#cheaper #clear #clear conscience #conscience #contented

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


Jerome K. Jerome


#enough #foolish #grumble #rest #show

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.


Lewis Thomas


#being #contented #existing #fact #here

And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before.


Hart Crane


#before #bridge #contented #ever #fancy

My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.


Robert Fulghum


#another #because #contented #dance #dances

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense 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 Hobbes


#all things #allow #contented #defense #down

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.


Florence Nightingale


#better #discontented #never #none #reach

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.


Joseph Sobran


#assume #being #citizens #contented #critics

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.


Socrates


#contented #depart #equal #everyone #heap






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