"It is right to be content with what we have, but never with what we are."
— James Mackintosh

January 1, 1970

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Memoirs of the Life of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackintosh Vol. I (1835), edited by his son Robert James Mackintosh. London: Edward Moxon, p. 482.