"Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!"
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"Whether one showed you and execution or a little finger, you would extract an equally edifying thought from both of them, and would still be content. That's the way to get on in life."
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"I recommend that you try a little mental floss."
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"There is too little public recognition of how much we all depend upon farmers as stewards of our soil, water and wildlife resources."
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"Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison."
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"I always say believe for a bunch, and even if you only get half of it you are better off than believing for a little and getting all of it."
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"There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it."
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"Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious."
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"when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all."
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"It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray."
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"We are a little piece of continual change, looking at an infinite quantity of continual change."
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"My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans."
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"I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time."
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"I find myself born into this particular position. I'm determined to make the most of it. And to do whatever I can to help. And I hope I leave things behind a little bit better than I found them."
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"The Refrigerator" Perry: "I've been big ever since I was little."
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"Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace."
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"There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands."
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"[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment."
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"Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods."
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"Is it still okay to make fun of schizophrenics? There's a little voice in my head that says no."
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