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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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Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. – Benjamin Franklin

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Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never. – 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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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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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. – Oscar Wilde

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The discontented man finds no easy chair. – Benjamin Franklin

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