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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner and his children, unless it be the arrogance most of us betray when we set out to ''Americanize'' him.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Lord Chesterfield There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Erica Jong There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • Paul Goodman There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
    Paul Goodman
    American writer, poet, criticus (1911 - 1972)
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  • Mother Teresa There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Boris Yeltsin There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were made in some less significant options, problems and so on. But, on the whole, Russia embarked on a correct path and it changed.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Box Brown There's definitely a delicate line you have to walk in telling someone else's story that's not quite as delicate in telling your own story. I think when I'm working on a personal story, there's less pressure to try to get it exactly right.
    Box Brown
    American cartoonist
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  • Alec Baldwin There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever before. We've never needed people to think more critically than now, and they've taken a big nap.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Benjamin Britten These two are not two Love has made them one Amo Ergo Sum! And by its mystery Each is no less but more.
    Letters from a Life Volume 3
    Benjamin Britten
    English composer, conductor, and pianist (1913 - 1976)
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  • Raymond Chandler They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.
    Raymond Chandler
    American writer (1888 - 1959)
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  • Bill Clinton They may walk with a little less spring in their step, and their ranks are growing thinner, but let us never forget, when they were young, these men saved the world.
    Speech on the 50th anniversary of D-Day at the United States Cemetery, Colleville-sur-Mer, France, 6 June 1994
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Thomas E. Lawrence This death's livery which walled its bearers from ordinary life was sign that they have sold their wills and bodies to the State: and contracted themselves into a service not the less abject for that its beginning was voluntary.
    Thomas E. Lawrence
    British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer (1888 - 1935)
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  • Alejo Carpentier Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent.
    Alejo Carpentier
    Cuban novelist, essayist, and musicologist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Butler Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Josh Billings Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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