"Rash actions are seldom committed in isolation. With the first rash action we always do too much. So we usually go on to commit asecond one--and then we do too little."
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"Hassan couldn't read a first-grade textbook but he'd read me plenty. That was a little unsettling but also sort of comfortable to have someone who always knew what you needed."
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"It was in my heart to help a little because I was helped much."
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"It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter."
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"Activity that perishes, that is not productive of the eternal, of the lasting, is of very little use."
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"I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now."
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"Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin."
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"The little man is still a man."
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"It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing."
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"Man is not permitted without censure to follow his own thoughts in the search of truth, when they lead him ever so little out of the common road."
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"Ironically, it was only maybe a year prior to Tim calling I had re-read Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and what I took away from it was these very strange, little cryptic nuggets that he'd thrown in there."
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"She has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body."
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"You’re not pathetic. Actually, I envy you a little.” “Because I’m a mess?” Zach asked dryly. “No. Because you’re not afraid to be a mess."
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"It is not great, but little good-haps that make up happiness."
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"I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while."
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"Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men."
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"It is easier to sacrifice great than little things."
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"He loves little who loves by rule."
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"Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life."
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"The little birds have God for their caterer."
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