Quote#Happiness
It is right to be content with what we have, but never with what we…
Quote byJames Mackintosh · 1765–1832
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh Vol. I (1835), edited by his son Robert James Mackintosh. London: Edward Moxon, p. 482..
English (original)
It is right to be content with what we have, but never with what we are.
— James Mackintosh
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