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“Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.”

Source: The Complete Poetry of O. Henry (Including a Biography of the Author): From the American writer, a master of short stories, known for The Gift of the Magi, Cabbages and Kings, The Cop and the Anthem, Options, Roads of Destiny, The Four Million…

“There is a basic lesson on financial crises that governments tend to wait too long, underestimate the risks, want to do too little. And it ultimately gets away from them, and they end up spending more money, causing much more damage to the economy.”

Want Littles Long Ends Government Waiting Economy Risk Lessons Crisis Financial Spending Damage Get Away More Money Underestimate Financial Crisis

Author:Timothy Geithner

“Economic privation proceeds by easy stages, and so long as men suffer it patiently the outside world cares little.”

Men World Littles Long Care Suffering Easy Economic Stage Outside World

Book:The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Source: The Economic Consequences of the Peace

“I write in a hurry, because the little one, who has been sleeping a long time, begins to call for me. Poor thing! when I am sad, I lament that all my affections grow on me, till they become too strong for my peace, though they all afford me snatches of exquisite enjoyment.”

Writing Littles Long Has Beens Strong Grows Sleep Poor Long Time Affection Enjoyment Exquisite Lament

Book:Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Source: Posthumous Works: of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

“The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.”

Firsts Littles Long Made Stuff Black White Effects Fronts Mets Fellows Legs Shirts Italian Medieval Fitting Theatrical Hooked Trunks Stripes Slim Chaps Moustache Dandy Embroidery Albanian

Author:Edith Durham

“You're gonna meet tons of different people throughout your life, and it's totally worth it to stick your neck out a little bit if you like someone. Even when you get shot down, it seems really devastating, but it's not in the long run.”

People Ifs Littles Long Different Seems Running Bits Little Bit Shots Sticks Necks Long Runs Worth It Different Peoples

Author:Pete Wentz

“You have never been, nor shall ever be, a person. Refuse to consider yourself as one. But as long as you do not even doubt yourself to be Mr. So-and-so, there is little hope. When you refuse to open your eyes, what can you be shown?”

Littles Persons Long Eye Doubt Refuse

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.”

May Littles Long Waiting Four Fields Luck Little Things Hunts Good Luck Hay Clovers

Author:Sarah Orne Jewett

“The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.”

Men Way Littles Long I Can Home Running Opportunity Justice Chance Greater He Man Great Things Now And Then Hammers Here And There Home Run Greater Things

Book:I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story

Source: I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story

“I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.”

“And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?”

Way Littles Long Hard Reality Walks Alive Essence Reality Of Life Pleasant Why Not Bloody Harsh Harsh Reality

Book:The Lavender Garden: A Novel

Source: The Lavender Garden: A Novel

“Me personally, I'm a guy who it took a long time to figure out what I'm supposed to be doing. I relate to a lot of that finding oneself a little later in the game, or being thrown a curve later in the game.”

Littles Long Guy Games Figures Findings Long Time Oneself Supposed To Be Relate Thrown Curves Finding Oneself

Author:Kurt Sutter

“Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.”

Littles Long Social Majors Regard Philosopher Thinker Darwinism Social Darwinism

Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.”

“What is greatly desired, but long deferred, gives little pleasure, when at length it is ours, for we have lived with it in imagination until we have grown weary of it, having ourselves, in the meanwhile, become other.”

Giving Littles Long Imagination Pleasure Length Weary

Author:John Lancaster Spalding

“Human life [is] ... a process of filling in time until the arrival of death, or Santa Claus, with very little choice, if any, of what kind of business one is going to transact during the long wait.”

Ifs Life Humans Kind Littles Long Life Is Choices Waiting Process Human Life Filling Santa Arrivals Santa Claus Filling In Long Wait

Author:Eric Berne

“Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation unless they go to California and grow large and beautiful, but haven't much flavour, like the fruit and the film stars.”

People Littles Long America Beautiful Film Courses Stars Grows Havens Fruit California Fairy Native North America Flavour Film Stars Importation

Book:Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

Source: Happy Alchemy: On the Pleasures of Music and the Theatre

“I put my pencil upon the paper, doubtfully, and drew little lines, considering my theme. But I would not long hesitate in this manner, for I knew that all creation must be chaos first, and then gestures in the void before it can cast out the completed thing.”

Firsts Littles Long Lines Creation Paper Chaos Casts Theme Void Gestures Considering Pencils

Book:Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Hilaire Belloc (Illustrated)

“A man can never have too much Time to himself, nor too little to do. Had I a little son, I would christen him Nothing-To-Do; he should do nothing. Man, I verily believe, is out of his element as long as he is operative. I am altogether for the life contemplative.”

Men Should Believe Littles Long Too Much Son Elements Contemplative

Book:The Works of Charles Lamb

Source: The Works of Charles Lamb

“If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me a convert of mountain-moving fervor and that I shall suddenly grow long earlocks and learn Hebrew and go about denouncing the heathen - you little know the effect of the Bible on me. Properly read, it is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”

Ifs Knows Littles Long Moving Force Grows Interest Atheism Effects Inspire Mountain Enthusiasm Suspects Judaism Hebrew Heathen Fervor

Author:Isaac Asimov

“It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.”

Littles Long Desire Progress Fairs Apples Worms

Author:Sherwood Anderson

“Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!”

Littles Long Sin Greater Degrees Regard Dare Height Wickedness

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.”

Littles Long Done Girl Women Hair Skirts Long Skirts

Book:Buttered Side Down

Source: Buttered Side Down

“Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.”

Littles Long Done Death Certain Born Flow Tasks Empty Long Ago

Book:The Canterbury tales

Source: The Canterbury tales

“It's a funny thing - when I'm crazed with work, spending time with my children relaxes me. Yet, at the end of a long weekend with them, the very thing I need to relax is a little work and time away from them!”

Needs Children Littles Long Ends Spending My Children Relax Weekend Funny Things Spending Time Time Away Long Weekend

Author:Emily Giffin

“Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn't take, their constant bickering and smallness, it's like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don't scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.”

Source: Sixty stories