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Discontent

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Past and to come seem best; things present worst.

William Shakespeare

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Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The global environmental crisis is, as we say in Tennessee, real as rain, and I cannot stand the thought of leaving my children with a degraded earth and a diminished future.

Al Gore (Jr.)

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A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, “Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?” holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. “Yet,” added he, “none of you can tell where it pinches me.”

Plutarch

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It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.

Cornelius Tacitus

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Crosspatch, draw the latch,
Set by the fire and spin:
Take a cup and drink it up,
Then call your neighbors in.

Anonymous: Nursery Rhymes

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Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Demosthenes

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In Rome you long for the country; in the country—oh inconstant!—you praise the distant city to the stars.

Horace

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