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I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less.

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans.

Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.

Our share of the vote overall rose by less than 1 per cent - yes, that's right: less than 1 per cent.

If you look at the publishers I've worked with, generally, they're a great bunch. Creation is unlike any other publishing house you can think of. The people I've worked with have integrity and intelligence and, almost always, less money than ideas.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

I am much less autistic now, compared to when I was young. I remember some behaviors like picking carpet fuzz and watching spinning plates for hours. I didn't want to be touched. I couldn't shut out background noise. I didn't talk until I was about 4 years old. I screamed. I hummed. But as I grew up, I improved.

We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.

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.