Famous quotes containing the word smaller:
“The higher we rise up, the smaller we appear to those who are unable to fly.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.”
—James Boswell (17401795)
“The smaller the person, the less we worry about his dignity. Sometimes we even find the idea a little ludicrous as if smallness and inexperience were incompatible with anything so majestic as human dignity....Yet children have a great sense of their own dignity. They couldnt define what it is but they know when it has been violated.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)
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