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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No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. – Oscar Wilde

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The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to encourage in others. – Oscar Wilde

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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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The discontented man finds no easy chair. – 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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Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. – Robert Herrick

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