"With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails."
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"Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply."
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"Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little."
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"High achievers dwell on what they do well and spend very little time evaluating themselves and their performances."
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"The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society. ... There is little value in ensuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it."
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"One must be just a little crazy to write a great novel. One must be capable of allowing the darkest, most ancient and shrewd parts of one’s being to take over the work from time to time."
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"The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time."
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"I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits."
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"I know well that happiness is in little things."
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"When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark."
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"Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little weather-beaten, but we're still here and plan to be around for a whole lot longer."
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"Living requires but little life; doing requires much."
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"Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable."
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"Reality is a narrow little house which becomes a prison to those who can't get out of it."
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"I didn't really understand the importance of little things. I didn't really understand that it was the little foxes that spoil the vine. And if we're not faithful in little things, that God will never be able to make us ruler over great things."
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"If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning."
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"That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty."
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"A little noiseless noise among the leaves, Born of the very sigh that silence heaves."
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"Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous - who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?"
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"The ones who count are those persons who - though they may be of little renown - respond to and are responsible for the continuation of the living spirit."
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