"Spite is a little word, but it represents as strange a jumble of feelings and compound of discords, as any polysyllable in the language."
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"Well, yeah, sometimes I get a little too creative."
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"The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little."
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"In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else."
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"Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew."
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"What you put out is what you get back, and the reason so many are so short of money is that they put little or nothing out"
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"[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more."
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"The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges."
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"I will tell you one thing. They will never drag me out like a little old widow like they did Mrs. Wilson when President Wilson died. I will never be used that way."
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"He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie."
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"After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others."
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"The longer I'm alive, the more I realize how little I know. Pretending that you know everything about every topic, and being very vocal about it? That's an instant turnoff."
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"He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful."
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"And maybe that was how it was supposed to be...Joy and sadness were part of the package; the trick, perhaps,was to let yourself feel all of it, but to hold on to the joy just a little more tightly."
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"To oblige people often costs little and helps much."
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"If you think you have a good idea, get into the marketplace as quickly as you can, using as little money as possible, and see what happens."
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"To be able to say how much love, is love but little."
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"It doesn't take much to lose everything, just a little departure from reason"
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"Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble."
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"Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts."
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