Quote by Benjamin Franklin
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of t

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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Many estates are spent in the getting, since women for tea forsake spinning and knitting, and men for punch forsake hewing and splitting. – Benjamin Franklin

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At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment. – Benjamin Franklin

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

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Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his own correctness will learn many things. – Chinese Proverb

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The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have. – Jos

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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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So little done, so much to do. – Cecil Rhodes

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Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think. – Roger Ebert

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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. Im not in that state now and that makes me sad. – Jack Nicholson

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I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge. – Jeffery Deaver

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