Quote by Oscar Wilde
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. – Oscar Wilde

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. – Oscar Wilde

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I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works. – Oscar Wilde

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There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. – Oscar Wilde

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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! – Luigi Pirandello

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Let thy discontents be thy secrets. – Benjamin Franklin

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If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. – David Rockefeller

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All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. – Benjamin Franklin

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