Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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  • Calvin Klein Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • C. Everett Koop Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than raising of the next generation.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Samuel Johnson Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • William Shakespeare Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Virginia Woolf Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • William Adams Brown Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.
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  • Alice Walker Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Kathleen Norris Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
    Kathleen Norris
    American poet and author (born 1947) (1947 - )
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  • Paul Gauguin Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
    Paul Gauguin
    French artist (1848 - 1903)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Abraham Cahan Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
    Abraham Cahan
    Belarusian-born Jewish American socialist newspaper editor, novelist, and politician
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  • George Eliot Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Publilius Syrus Life itself is short, but lasts longer than misfortunes.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Emily Carr Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
    Emily Carr
    Canadian artist and writer (1871 - 1945)
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  • Andrew Lang Life's more amusing than we thought.
    Andrew Lang
    Scottish poet, novelist and literary critic (1844 - 1912)
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