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Letter "L" » least
«Who knows most speaks least»
«What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
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«We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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«We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talent»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly -- a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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«When the river is deepest it makes least noise»
Author: Proverb
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