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.

  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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