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"No man can perform so little as not to have reason to congratulate himself on his merits, when he beholds the multitude that live in total idleness, and have never yet endeavoured to be useful."
"Every man's affairs, however little, are important to himself."
"No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn how little the attention of others is attracted by himself. While we see multitudes passing before us, of whom perhaps not one appears to deserve our notice or excites our sympathy, we should remember, that we likewise are lost in the same throng, that the eye which happens to glance upon us is turned in a moment on him that follows us, and that the utmost which we can reasonably hope or fear is to fill a vacant hour with prattle, and be forgotten."
"This world, where much is to be done and little to be known."
"Trust as little as you can to report, and examine all you can by your own senses."
"Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use."
"You think I love flattery (says Dr. Johnson), and so I do; but a little too much always disgusts me: that fellow Richardson, on the contrary, could not be contented to sail quietly down the stream of reputation, without longing to taste the froth from every stroke of the oar."
"I think it's a little premature to talk about response until we know exactly what happened, but we should know what happened. And we should know how to defend [against hackers attacks] ourselves without question."
"I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid."
"But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species."
"A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing."
"Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves."
"Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known."
"Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!"
"...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away."
"Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror."
"Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off."
"If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes."
"The mountains of madness have many little plateau of sanity."
"This, milord, is my family's axe. We have owned it for almost nine hundred years, see. Of course, sometimes it needed a new blade. And sometimes it has required a new handle, new designs on the metalwork, a little refreshing of the ornamentation . . . but is this not the nine hundred-year-old axe of my family? And because it has changed gently over time, it is still a pretty good axe, y'know. Pretty good."
