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RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread
August 19, 2016 at 12:58 pm (This post was last modified: August 19, 2016 at 12:59 pm by Whateverist.)
(August 19, 2016 at 12:52 pm)robvalue Wrote: Appreciate what you have, rather than worrying about what you don't have.

Or, to quote a dead white guy, 
  • If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.

[b]Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu  aka  Charles de Montesquieu

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Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Excited Penguin - August 19, 2016 at 10:29 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by downbeatplumb - August 19, 2016 at 11:06 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Excited Penguin - August 19, 2016 at 11:27 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by purplepurpose - August 19, 2016 at 11:52 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Excited Penguin - August 19, 2016 at 12:40 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by account_inactive - August 19, 2016 at 11:53 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by downbeatplumb - August 19, 2016 at 12:30 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by chimp3 - August 19, 2016 at 12:36 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by purplepurpose - August 19, 2016 at 12:49 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by robvalue - August 19, 2016 at 12:52 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Whateverist - August 19, 2016 at 12:58 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by downbeatplumb - August 19, 2016 at 1:28 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Edwardo Piet - August 19, 2016 at 1:32 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by PETE_ROSE - August 19, 2016 at 1:58 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by purplepurpose - August 19, 2016 at 2:14 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Edwardo Piet - August 19, 2016 at 2:17 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by FatAndFaithless - August 19, 2016 at 2:18 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Edwardo Piet - August 19, 2016 at 2:22 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Thumpalumpacus - August 19, 2016 at 3:24 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Joods - August 19, 2016 at 3:33 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by PETE_ROSE - August 19, 2016 at 3:50 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Excited Penguin - August 19, 2016 at 3:55 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by account_inactive - August 19, 2016 at 4:18 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Cato - August 20, 2016 at 6:32 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Thumpalumpacus - October 6, 2016 at 2:25 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by PETE_ROSE - August 19, 2016 at 4:10 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by PETE_ROSE - August 19, 2016 at 4:33 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by The Grand Nudger - August 19, 2016 at 4:34 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by brewer - August 19, 2016 at 5:55 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by account_inactive - August 19, 2016 at 5:55 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - August 19, 2016 at 5:55 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by chimp3 - August 20, 2016 at 5:45 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Edwardo Piet - August 20, 2016 at 5:56 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Little lunch - August 20, 2016 at 6:05 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Homeless Nutter - August 20, 2016 at 6:10 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Homeless Nutter - August 20, 2016 at 6:06 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by brewer - August 20, 2016 at 6:15 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Edwardo Piet - August 20, 2016 at 6:17 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Edwardo Piet - August 25, 2016 at 11:25 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Whateverist - August 25, 2016 at 11:30 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by FatAndFaithless - August 25, 2016 at 11:37 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Thumpalumpacus - October 6, 2016 at 2:32 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Joods - August 25, 2016 at 11:39 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Edwardo Piet - August 25, 2016 at 11:45 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Excited Penguin - October 6, 2016 at 12:13 am
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by bennyboy - October 6, 2016 at 7:20 pm
RE: Conventional Wisdom Thread - by Astreja - October 8, 2016 at 12:50 am
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