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Edwin A. Abbott Quotes: To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.
         

To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.


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To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.
         



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Learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.

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