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Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a… — Carl Jung
If we lacked curiosity, we should do less for the good of our neighbor. But, under the name of duty or pity, curiosity steals into… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A prince must be prudent enough to know how to escape the bad reputation of those vices that would lose the state for him, and… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Just eat less and exercise more. — Mark Hyman, M.D.
I've found in the past that the more closely I identify with the heroine, the less completely she emerges as a person. So from the… — Beth Richardson Gutcheon
It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady. — Henry David Thoreau
The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old. — Luc de Clapiers
The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more… — Learned Hand
The only money of God is God. He pays never with any thing less, or any thing else. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight… — John W. Gardner
A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for… — B.F. Skinner
The weather behaved itself. In the spring, the little flowers came out obediently in the meads, and the dew sparkled, and the birds sang. In… — T.H. White
The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of… — James Russell Lowell
There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self-absorption . — Timothy Keller
There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and… — James A. Baldwin
In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so. — Joe Elliott
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful. — Mignon McLaughlin
With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it. — Mignon McLaughlin
O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle… — Robert Frost
Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction. — Barbara Kingsolver
A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet it somehow seemed… — John Kendrick Bangs
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has… — George Santayana
The washing of dishes does seem to me the most absurd and unsatisfactory business that I ever undertook. If, when once washed, they would remain… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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