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Littles Quotes - Page 115

... the truth is exactly that which can't be got into words. We are forced to lie, a little or, if we are inferior, much.

Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.399, A&C Black

There is so little that one can do for the dead!

Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “The Emperor of Portugallia”, p.191, Library of Alexandria

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Samuel Richardson (1751). “Clarissa; Or, The History of a Young Lady: Comprehending the Most Important Concerns of Private Life”, p.415

Nothing is little to him that feels it with great sensibility.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.429

Those that have done nothing in life, are not qualified to judge of those that have done little

Samuel Johnson (1819). “The Beauties of Samuel Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations, Moral, Critical, and Miscellaneous”, p.142