No one but a fool would ...

No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
 Oliver Goldsmith

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Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
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As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.
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Silence is become his mother tongue.
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Blest that abode, where want and pain repair, And every stranger finds a ready chair.
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