"If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world."
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"Little things that run the world."
"Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience."
"talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little."
"I get a little too obsessive with work."
"Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse."
"Part of flirting is that you tend to give each other a little extra slack to be obscure - to say things that are suggestive and nuanced, rather than clear and comprehensible, things you wouldn't put up with in an essay or something written by a stranger - and that can be so exciting."
"Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little."
"Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west."
"You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself."
"In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution."
"Her little sister will tell you she don't live here anymore."
"The only exercise I get is on the stage. If I didn't get that, I'd get a little round around the tummy, as much as I eat."
"I had no monarch in my life, and cannot rule myself; and when I try to organize, my little force explodes and leaves me bare and charred."
"I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink."
"I used to do Facebook but you get a little too wrapped up in that stuff. Its more distracting than anything so I don't any more. I left it behind. I detoxed!"
"But sometimes I've felt a little constrained by that idea of who I'm meant to be."
"Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man."
"The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do."
"Delight in splendor is No more than happiness with little: for both Have their appeal."