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...whoever imagines a woman after this model, which consists in saying little things in big words, will see a pretty girl adorned with mirrors and chains...
Pensees (1669) -
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
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A Deap Vally renaissance is going to begin next year and will be our focus for the start of 2013. They will blow the cobwebs off a music scene that has become just a little bit stale.
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
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A father... knows exactly what those boys at the mall have in their depraved little minds because he once owned such a depraved little mind himself. In fact, if he thinks enough about the plans that he used to have for young girls, the father not only will support his wife in keeping their daughter home but he might even run over to the mall and have a few of those boys arrested.
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A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
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A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.
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A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
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A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
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A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
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A leader is best when people barely know he exists, not so good when people obey and acclaim him, worse when they despise him. But of a good leader who talks little when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: We did it ourselves.
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A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
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A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
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A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.
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A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.
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A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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