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Letter "L" » let alone
«Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.»
«All we ask is to be let alone.»
«In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn.»
«I am afraid it is a non-starter. I cannot even use a bicycle pump [let alone a computer].»
«I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.»
Author: Billie Holiday
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«Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it»
«If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
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«And one ran and filled a spunge full of vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let alone; let us see whether Elias will come to take him down.»
«A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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«For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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Harley, Harley Street, let alone, specialist, specialists, thirteen, Thirteen Years
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