Quotes with petty

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• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  Aesop
  Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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• A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.

  Walter Bagehot
  English economist (1826 - 1877)
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• Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters. We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.

  Pablo Picasso
  Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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• Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

  Harrow School, 29-10-1941

  Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• petty--never
• overwhelming
• stupidities
• convictions
• apparently
• mistakes

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