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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If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. – Oscar Wilde

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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – Oscar Wilde

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

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Discontent is something that follows ambition like a shadow. – Henry H. Haskins

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Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. – Robert Herrick

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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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