"If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command."
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"The man who is truly wise knows that he knows very little."
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"We have only a little time to please the living. But all eternity to love the dead."
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"Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labour."
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"How could anyone survive even a single day, if he didn't feel as if he was, in some little great way, needed?"
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"Humans are not the end result of predictable evolutionary progress, but rather a fortuitous cosmic afterthought, a tiny little twig on the enormously arborescent bush of life, which if replanted from seed, would almost surely not grow this twig again."
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"Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint."
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"There's nothing wrong with a little fear. Being fearful can save your life-it's saved mine on more than one occasion-but too much fear can stop you from living."
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"Economists are coming to acknowledge that measures of national wealth and poverty in terms strictly of average income tell you little that is significant of the health or viability of a society."
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"The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality."
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"I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all."
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"Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world."
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"What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl."
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"Everyone leaves the world a little better some by leaving."
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"After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower."
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"When you're 25, it's a little bit easier to be daring, especially if you are a pop star, because eccentric behavior is expected from you."
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"It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way."
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"The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present."
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"Jupiter has no leisure to attend to little things."
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"Little things please little minds."
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