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— Evan Esar"Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy."
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Sir, sorrow is inherent in humanity. As you cannot judge two and two to be either five, or three, but certainly four, so, when comparing a worse present state with a better which is past, you cannot but feel sorrow. It is not cured by reason, but by the incursion of present objects, which bear out the past.
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