Examine the records of history, recollect what has happened within the
circle of your own experience, consider with attention what has been the
conduct of almost all the greatly unfortunate, either in private or public
life, whom you may have either read of, or hear of, or remember, and you
will find that the misfortunes of by far the greater part of them have
arisen from their not knowing when they were well, when it was proper for
them to set still and to be contented. -- Adam Smith
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