"Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet."
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"There are a lot of children in Afghanistan, but little childhood."
"If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making."
"There can be little liking where there is no likeness."
"A little of what you like does you good. But you can have too much of a good thing."
"I like my human experience served up with a little silence and restraint. Silence makes experience go further and, when it does die, gives it that dignity common to a thing one had touched and not ravished"
"There's a little blackness inside all of us."
"Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee."
"It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It's very tedious work, but very easy."
"My only rule is to keep moving, for a pump and cardio at the same time. Rest as little as possible. After an hour, you will feel fantastic and your muscles won't know what hit them."
"Every little obstacle-every fall you have-is an opportunity."
"You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it."
"Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak."
"What has gotten into you lately? Save a little craziness for menopause!"
"To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten."
"A little knowledge is a dangerous thing - it only hastens fools to rush in where angels fear to tread."
"It is not that we have so little time but that we lose so much. ... The life we receive is not short but we make it so; we are not ill provided but use what we have wastefully."
"The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell."
"For we can only know that we know nothing, and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing."
"A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself."