"The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones."
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"The daily employment of cunning marks a little mind, it generally happens that those who resort to it in one respect to protect themselves lay themselves open to attack in another."
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"Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years."
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"Sometimes a little brain damage can help."
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"We are led on, like little children, by a way we know not."
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"I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once."
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"Little dogs start the Hare, the great get her."
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"A little understanding of "As you sow, so shall you reap" is important, because then you can't blame the condition you're in on anyone else."
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"Politicians were mostly people who'd had too little morals and ethics to stay lawyers."
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"There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide."
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"It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn."
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"Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work."
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"If you do not rest on the good foundation of nature, you will labour with little honor and less profit."
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"The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones."
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"It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting."
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"It's always the little decisions that have the biggest impact."
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"Little Alice fell d o w n the hOle, bumped her head and bruised her soul"
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"Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players."
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"This sounds really corny, but I am a slave to my work, a workaholic, and glad of it. I like what I do; this is my place, my little universe, one of them."
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"More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled."
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