"He that will not stoop for a pin will never be worth a pound."

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Source : Samuel Pepys (1858). “Diary and Correspondence: The Diary deciphered by the K. J. Smith from the original Shorthand Ms. in the Pepysian Library. With a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke. In four volumes”, p.341

Samuel Pepys

#Pounds Quotes #Pins Quotes

“When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.”
“Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.”
“Do those things that incline you toward the big questions, and avoid the things that would reduce you and make you trivial.”

Source : George Saunders (2014). “Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness”, p.56, A&C Black
“Who ordained that the few should have the land (of Britain) as a prerequisite; who made 10,000 people owners of the soil and the rest of us trespassers in the land of our birth?”
“A nation is a body of people who have done great things together.”
“What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.”
“It seems hardly fair to quarrel with a place because its staple commodity is not pretty, but I am sure I should have liked Cincinnati much better if the people had not dealt so very largely in hogs.”

Source : Frances Trollope (2015). “Domestic Manners of the Americans”, p.65, Sheba Blake Publishing
“I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions.”

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