Paltry Quotes
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There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere man
Edgar Allan Poe
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Like most people I want to do everything I can to persuade the G8 leaders to make huge commitments to the relief of poverty and increased aid to the third world. It`s crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations. An...
David Gilmour
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There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.
Sam Waterston
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So long as you don`t feel life`s paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn`t matter, happiness or unhappiness.
Alan Sandals
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One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or ...
Walter Scott
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My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.
Allan Skinner
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You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man`s actions are, such must be his spirit.
Aaron Wichman
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An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
William Butler Yeats
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