"There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby."
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"It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it."
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"Perpetual aiming at wit is a very bad part of conversation. It is done to support a character: it generally fails; it is a sort of insult on the company, and a restraint upon the speaker."
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"I consider myself really lucky and I always have done. My approach is that if I know I'm relaxed and happy, then I will do my best work."
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"When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place."
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"I admired the English immensely for all that they had endured, and they were certainly honorable, and stopped their cars for pedestrians, and called you “sir” and “madam,” and so on. But after a week there, I began to feel wild. It was those ruddy English faces, so held in by duty, the sense of “what is done” and “what is not done,” and always swigging tea and chirping, that made me want to scream like a hyena"
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"A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort."
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"You know, I've had a helluva life. Not just the acting part. I've flown in an international balloon race. I've piloted my own plane. I've ridden to the hounds. I've done a lot of exciting things."
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"We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company."
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"I loved you when you were unfaithful; what would I have done if you were true?"
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"Ashley Graham on the cover certainly better than nothing. It would have felt revolutionary to me as a teenage girl, for sure. But really, all they've done is include a very conventionally attractive woman who is two to three sizes bigger than the model they would usually use."
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"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby."
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"What I have done is learn to love and learn to be loved. That didn't come easy."
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"What our Lord did was done with the intent, and this alone, that he might be with us and we with him."
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"No noble thing can be done without risks."
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"Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best; and he answered as I would have done when he said, "Somebody else's"."
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"There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love"
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"You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done."
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"I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get the job done."
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"Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it."
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