Quote by Alexander Pope
Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? - Alexander Pope

Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel? – Alexander Pope

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Order is Heavens first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king. – Alexander Pope

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If you add to the truth, you subtract from it. – The Talmud

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Every vice is only an exaggeration of a necessary and virtuous function. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. – Ernest Hemingway

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Sometimes in life we blow things out of proportion because proportion is so dull. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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