Part 28 (1/2)
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Do even as you will, that this dispute live not between us as a consu fire forever!
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CONTENTION--AVOIDING OF
Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise, The man who lets the contest fall is wise
--_Plutarch_
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”I never complained of my condition but once,” said an old man, ”when my feet were bare and I had no money to buy shoes; but I met a man without feet, and became contented”
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It is right to be contented e have, but never e are
--_Sir James Mackintosh_
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A favorite saying of the beloved Dr John A Broaddus was: ”It is better to like what you have, than to have what you like”
--_Christian Observer_
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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you never will be rich
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Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air In his own ground
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Since we have loaves, let us look not for cakes
--_Spanish_