"The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear."
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"Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton."
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"Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them."
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"The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right."
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"a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved."
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"A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done."
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"When you get older, you're running out of time. You care more about trying to stay on the planet a little longer, so you can learn how to draw better!"
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"I've found that when I'm having trouble solidifying a character or a scene, that music will often free my subconscious just that last little bit to allow me to move forward, and often it's in a direction that I didn't expect, but is 100 percent true to the character."
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"But why allow someone to make a bad choice when a little information might engender a better one? It's hard to wake up and see the sun if the blinds are pulled."
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"I’m not going anywhere with you, you little shoemaker,” I said (Rachel to Trent)"
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"My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire."
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"But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power."
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"Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some"
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"What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it."
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"Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret."
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"The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away."
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"A little too much is just enough for me."
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"He who eats in idleness that which he himself has not earned, steals it; and a capitalist whom the state pays for doing nothing differs little in my eyes from a brigand, who lives at the expense of passers-by."
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"The form [of literature] matters little to me, classical or not."
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"I thought Bones looked like a little slice of heaven, but you're the whole cake, aren't you, sugar?"
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