"Don't fuss about trifles. Don't permit little things-the mere termites of life-to ruin your happiness."
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"You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life."
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"Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one."
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"There's over 100 species of lemurs. Each is a little bit different in their social structure except for one thing: they are all female dominant. The females are the leaders. They are the ones that call the shots. When you watch a group, you can see the females are the first one to say “We’re going to move.” Then she moves off and everybody just follows."
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"Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue."
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"I think everybody's crazy, and if I'm the one being a little direct about it, that's fine by me."
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"I'm probably a little too uninhibited."
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"O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!"
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"Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it."
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"Speak little, do much."
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"Man is a universe in little [Microcosm]."
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"The great thieves lead away the little thief."
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"Sometimes my mouth is a little too big and a little too open and sounds too much like a sailor."
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"And I just hope that I'm forgiven for carin bout how they livin and loanin a little money and keepin em outta prison I aint lyin in my verses, I'm just tellin you the basics of growin up wit ya friends and becomin the one that made it"
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"Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact"
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"The cost of being a publicly traded stock has gone way, way up. It doesn't make sense for a little company to be public anymore. A lot of little companies are going private to be rid of these burdensome requirements."
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"Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it."
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"If there are any tears shed in heaven, it will be because we prayed so little."
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"For all that "I was lost, I am found," it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment."
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"The wisest and best are repulsive, if they are characterized by repulsive manners. Politeness is an easy virtue, costs little, and has great purchasing power."
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