"For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much."
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"You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones."
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"This little flute of a reed thou hast carried over hills and dales, and hast breathed through it melodies eternally new."
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"Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously."
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"But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith."
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"Uh, yeah, I do. The scythe was a little tricky at first, but—much like golf—turns out it’s all in the swing."
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"Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings."
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"I do not wish to remove from my present prison to a prison a little larger. I wish to break all prisons."
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"I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little."
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"The dependant who cultivates delicacy in himself very little consults his own tranquillity."
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"I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost."
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"I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little"
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"We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world."
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"I heard about crack on the news and I was like, "Oh, that's what the niggas must be doing." And when I kept coming outside, I was doing my own little jostlin' to get my money."
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"I had fun to be a little bit of a nerd."
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"It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing."
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"What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him that is willing."
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"And in a world where we have too many choices and too little time, the obvious thing to do is just ignore stuff. And my parable here is, you're driving down the road and you see a cow, and you keep driving 'cause you've seen cows before. Cows are invisible. Cows are boring. Who's going to stop and pull over and say, oh, look, a cow? Nobody."
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"Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can."
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"Unfortunately, real life can’t be wrapped up with a nice little bow."
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