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A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.
What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.
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And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.
Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.
Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.
Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?
I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!
The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.
The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury.
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This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy.
In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead.
