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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=357814" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Boon of Discontent</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once an anthropoidal ape,<br>Hairy, savage, strange of shape,<br>On a day that was excessively B.C.,<br>In a forest damp and dim,<br>With his tail round a limb,<br>Hung head downward from a neolithic tree;<br>And appeared to be lost in gloomy introspection.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In his dull primeval style,<br>He considered quite a while <br>A comparatively thoughtful ape was he <br>Then he drummed upon his chest,<br>And remarked: 'I give it best!<br>Strike me lucky! This 'ere game's no good to me!<br>And I'm full up of the whole damn business!'<br>To the father of the tribe<br>He proceeded to describe<br>How upon a change of living he was bent.<br>Said the Tory anthropoid:<br>'Son, such thoughts you should avoid:<br>They are obviously born of discontent.<br>And such revolutionary notions would rend the whole social fabric.'<br>Since the Eocene,<br>Till this age of biplanes,<br>Man has ever been<br>Yearning toward the high planes.<br>And while the Tory lags behind in by-ways worn and narrow,<br>'Tis the discontented section that shoves on the old world's barrow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once a naked troglodyte,<br>On a bitter Winter's night,<br>Sat and shivered in his cave the whole night through!<br>For his scanty coat of hair<br>In no manner could compare<br>With the matted clothes his late forefather grew.<br>(Meaning the meditative anthropoidal ape I mentioned previously.)<br>And the troglodyte remarked,<br>As without a wild dog barked,<br>And a dinosaurus lumbered through the fog,<br>'I am sick of nakedness,<br>And I'd like, I must confess,<br>To be shielded in the clothing of a dog.<br>And, hang me, if I don't go after one in the morning.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was met with scoffs and grins,<br>When he walked abroad in skins:<br>And the troglodyte Conservatives cried: 'Shame!<br>Thus to hide the healthy nude<br>Is obscene, indecent rude!'<br>But the malcontent felt warmer, all the same.<br>And so began the evolution of the split skirt and the hot sock.<br>Since the Age of Stone,<br>To these Days of Reason,<br>Man has keener grown<br>In and out of season.<br>'Tis through being discontented that humanity progresses.<br>If you're satisfied with dog skins you will ne'er have satin dresses.<br>Once upon a time, a slave<br>Had an impulse to behave<br>In a most unprecedented sort of style.<br>He threw down his tools, and cried<br>That he wasn't satisfied,<br>And all slavery was barbarous and vile.<br>(They probably boiled him in oil; but that's merely incidental.)</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Once again, a man who rode<br>In a coach disliked the mode<br>Of that locomotion. 'Twas too slow by far.<br>He was filled with discontent;<br>So he - or some other - went<br>And, in course of time, evolved the motor-car.<br>And, if ever you've had one scare seven devils out of you, you'll know <br>it for a very great invention.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So, observe, this discontent<br>To mankind is wisely sent<br>That he may be urged along to conquer new things,<br>They who were quite satisfied,<br>Like the Dinosaurs, died.<br>While the discontented anthropoids still do things.<br>And continue to be discontented, of course; but that's all in the game.<br>Since the age of apes,<br>To this generation,<br>Mankind thus escapes<br>Absolute stagnation.<br>Here's the only consolation my philosophy is giving:<br>Discontentment with existence is your sole excuse for living.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Clarence+Michael+James+Stanislaus+Dennis">Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis</a><div class=q>
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Hairy, savage, strange of shape,
On a day that was excessively B.C.,
In a forest damp and dim,
With his tail round a limb,
Hung head downward from a neolithic tree;
And appeared to be lost in gloomy introspection.

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