"We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery."
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"One cares so little for the style in which one's praises are written."
"The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it."
"If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue."
"I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes."
"A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little."
"A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches."
"I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator."
"Enthusiasm produces the most cruel disorders in human society; but its fury is like that of thunder and tempest, which exhaust themselves in a little time, and leave the air more calm and serene than before."
"For the purposes of life and conduct, and society, a little good sense is surely better than all this genius, and a little good humour than this extreme sensibility."
"Life is to short to be little."
"Every performer should learn a little bit of everything. Most performers today only play the guitar."
"You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't."
"I always say I hope to God I die in a town with a good tailor, a good shoemaker, and perhaps someone who's interested in a little quelque chose d'autre."
"By worrying as little as possible about fame."
"I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little."
"Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse"
"I'm a little lavish I must admit. But I'm not really concerned with money. Being rich is not my goal, being wealthy is."
"He was simply and staunchly true to his duty alike in the large case and in the small. So all true souls ever are. So every true soul ever was, ever is, and ever will be. There is nothing little to the really great in spirit."
"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so."