"O Time with your teethy years! You swallow up all things little by little in a slow-motion, wrinkling process of dying."
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"A man was desired to rise from bed because the sun was already up. He replied: "If I had as far to go and as much to do as he has, I should be up by now; but having but a little way to go, I shall not get up yet.""
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"I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished."
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"There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."
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"And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC"
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"How little inventiveness there is in man, Grave copier of copies."
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"How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives."
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"... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered."
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"He that is over-cautious will accomplish but very little."
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"Yes I do it big, call me little astronomical. Weezy F. Baby and the F is for phenomenal."
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"How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it."
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"Children have but little charity for one another's defects"
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"Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
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"I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."
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"it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
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"Young children are such nasty little beasts!"
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"I grabbed it and squeezed it back into place. It gave a little crunch and popped right in."
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"They must know but little of mankind who can imagine that, after they have been once seduced by luxury, they can ever renounce it."
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"That’s right, you nasty little vixen, bite me harder." Ian urged."
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"People let little things cheat them out of big opportunities"
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