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Contentment

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Contentment is natural wealth; luxury, artificial poverty.

Socrates

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For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge.

Philip Sidney

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If I am not for myself, who is for me? And when I am for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

Hillel (the Elder)

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We are lovers of beauty without extravagance, and lovers of wisdom without unmanliness. Wealth to us is not mere material for vainglory but an opportunity for achievement; and poverty we think it no disgrace to acknowledge but a real degradation to make no effort to overcome.

Thucydides

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I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

Jerome K. Jerome

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The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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