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There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

We fear doing too little when we should do more. Then atone by doing too much, when perhaps we should do less.

The optimum population is, then, less than the maximum.

The more consciously democratic Americans became, however, the less they were satisfied with a conception of the Promised Land, which went no farther than a pervasive economic prosperity guaranteed by free institutions.

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.

Competition is the final price determinant and competitive prices may result in profits which force you to accept a rate of return less than you hoped for, or for that matter to accept temporary losses.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

They both go together; you can't be in front of the camera hosting a fitness television show in front of 75 million households and not have trained 6 days per week year round - in a bikini no less.

Studies indicate that these children are more susceptible to advertising and even less likely to understand the purpose of this advertising.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.

I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that.

I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me awake and interested, an eternal student.

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

There is no doubt that, as a society, we have become blase about the importance of marriage as a stabilising influence and less inclined to prize it as a worthwhile institution.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

The more people know about you, the less they can project who you are supposed to be. It's unfortunate that you really only get one shot at that.

There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it was but underlying it all there is still a pretty sexist view of women on stage, which to me hasn't changed that much.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

All I can do will only ever be a faint image of what I see and my success will always be less than my failure or perhaps equal to the failure.

I think that there are empty ecological niches in the literary landscape crying to be filled and when a book more or less fills a niche it's seized on, even when it's a far from perfect fit.

But in this Second Work if thou extract our Air and our Fire with the phlegm water, they will the more naturally and easily be drawn out of their infernal prison, and with less losse of their Spirits, than by the former way before described.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by fiction.

One's happiness depends less on what he knows than on what he feels.

Children with obesity and diabetes live harder poorer lives, they often don't finish school and earn much less than their healthy counterparts.

I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him.