Quotes with nothings

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• Great merit, or great failings, will make you respected or despised; but trifles, little attentions, mere nothings, either done or neglected, will make you either liked or disliked in the general run of the world.

  ― Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• I keep attacking the villains, the know-nothings, the people who want to take our freedoms away.

  ― Al Goldstein
  American pornographer (1936 - 2013)
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• Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

  ― Jane Austen
  English writer (1775 - 1817)
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• Such laboured nothings, in so strange a style, I amaze the unlearn'd, and make the learned smile.

  Source: Essay on Criticism 327

  ― Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• Variety in mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something s.

  ― Jean Paul
  German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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• Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

  ― Jean Paul
  German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• know-nothings
• succession
• uniformity
• something
• villains
• freedoms

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