"Praise little, dispraise less."
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"A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
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"From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books."
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"A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts."
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"Great talkers, little doers."
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"It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent."
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"Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain."
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"All of us, the great and the little have need of each other."
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"Much outcry, little outcome."
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"Little liberties are great offenses."
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"If you're Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and your marriage is breaking up - that's an awful thing. But to see that speculation in people, it's gotta sting a little bit."
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"I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore."
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"Kafka's evocations are, rather, unconscious and almost sub-archetypal, the little-kid stuff from which myths derive; this is why we tend to call even his weirdest stories nightmarish rather than surreal."
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"It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. It is not contrary to reason for me to choose my total ruin, to prevent the least uneasiness of an Indian, or person wholly unknown to me. It is as little contrary to reason to prefer even my own acknowledged lesser good to my greater, and have a more ardent affection for the former than the latter."
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"All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big."
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"[Marilyn Monroe] was a bit temperamental, a little diva-like, but she didn't deserve what she got."
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"Plus, publishing's inherent conservatism, means that what little did get through was weighted towards the commercial end of the scale, which is not the kind of writing that excites me."
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"I think they should put pies on the fronts of trains, so that when they hit something it's at least a little bit funny."
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"I was a serious poet for quite a while and had little notebooks filled with poetry."
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"Everyone is motivated a little or a lot to do something or nothing. Motivation is the internalized drive toward the dominant thought of the moment. By definition, motivation is "motive in action.""
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