"Nothing more predisposes someone in our favour than to let him rob you a little."
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"There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed."
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"Ah little recks the laborer, How near his work is holding him to God, The loving Laborer through space and time"
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"I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that."
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"From a hologrammatic viewpoint, ...you are one little physical image that reflects all of humanity when projected spiritually upon the cosmic screen."
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"If you try to find your source, you are not going to find it in a tiny little particle that began with your parents commingling."
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"But if you put your thoughts on what's on its way, then you'll start looking for every little clue, and every person walking into your life becomes someone who is a messenger or a deliverer of something that is going to help you deliver what you have an intention about."
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"There is no moment that isn't equivalent in value to any other moment. You have to surrender the little mind to the big mind, and turn what you want over to God."
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"Washington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character."
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"It is scarcely exaggeration to say that if one is not a little mad about Balzac at twenty, one will never live; and if at forty one can still take Rastignac and Lucien de Rubempre at Balzac's own estimate, one has lived in vain."
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"I like films that go a little more daring visually, and story-based stuff that usually reflects pretty closely to what real life is."
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"Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart."
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"I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it."
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"Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while."
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"Love in the young requires as little of hope as of desire to feed upon."
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"It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister."
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"Only the peak feels so sound and stable that the beginning of the falling is hidden for a little while."
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"One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print."
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"Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text"
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"I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office."
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