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“Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.”

Knows Littles Science Known Knowledge Ought

Author:Blaise Pascal

“There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.”

Knows Men Littles Matter Courses Ought Birthday Old Man Old Birthday

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.”

World Littles Art Literature Ought Works Of Art Isolated Aphorism Hedgehogs

Author:Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“It was about eleven o'clock in the morning, mid October, with the sun not shining and a look of hard wet rain in the clearness of the foothills. I was wearing my powder-blue suit, with dark blue shirt, tie and display handkerchief, black brogues, black wool socks with dark little clocks on them. I was neat, clean, shaved and sober, and I didn't care who knew it. I was everything the well-dressed private detective ought to be. I was calling on four million dollars.”

Source: The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely

“I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding— certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever.”

Source: Pride and Prejudice (Diversion Classics)

“She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the affection that lay behind her poor little stratagems. Flowers are so inconsistent! But I was too young to know how to love her.”

Knows Littles Running Young Poor Behinds Know How Flower Ought Lays Casts Affection Running Away Fragrance Inconsistent Radiance How To Love Stratagem Flower Love

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Some leave our life with tears, others with an insane frigidity; Mrs. Wilcox had taken the middle course, which only rarer natures can pursue. She had kept proportion. She had told a little of her grim secret to her friends, but not too much; she had shut up her heart--almost, but not entirely. It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.”

Ifs Heart Littles Eye Dies Courses Secret Taken Too Much Our Lives Middle Tears Ought Equal Victim Pursue Insane Proportion Shore Shut Up Entering Fanatics Grim Frigidity

Book:Howards End: England Literature

Source: Howards End: England Literature

“Little bits of things make me do it; — perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; — the most ordinary little mistakes, even my own past thoughts to myself about the merest trifles. They are always making me shiver.”

Years Littles Said Past Bits My Own Mistake Ought Ten Little Bit Ordinary Years Ago Trifles Shiver

Book:Can You Forgive Her?

Source: Can You Forgive Her?