If you add a little to a little, and then do it again, soon that little shall be much.


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If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great.
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Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little...
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She knew too much. -A
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Well, now
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Therefore they shall laugh little and weep much as a recompense for what they earned.
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And be it gash or gold it will not come
Again in ...
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So much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.
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Having been a little chastised, they shall be greatly rewarded.
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If it had been a year it would have been too soon. But, it's been a little while.
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If you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him little, that little let him enjoy.
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Since yesterday, it seems as if this window could open again a little.
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