"The trite and commonplace question of contentment and dissatisfaction is a topic which is not only of every-day interest, but one which in recent years has so claimed the attention of thinkers, that they have broadly divided mankind into those who accept life offhand, as a more or less pleasing possession, and those who resolutely look the gift in the mouth and say it is not worth the having." Pessimistic philosophical treatise.
"The trite and commonplace question of contentment and dissatisfaction is a topic which is not only of every-day interest, but one which in recent years has so claimed the attention of thinkers, that they have broadly divided mankind into those who accept life offhand, as a more or less pleasing possession, and those who resolutely look the gift in the mouth and say it is not worth the having." Pessimistic philosophical treatise.