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Largeness is a lifelong matter,” he wrote. “. . . You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn’t, its teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you’re large because you can’t stand to be small.


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WILLIAM GOLDING The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you...
PRINCE WILLIAM What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, w...
WILLIAM GOLDING Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man...
WILLIAM GODWIN Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.
WILLIAM O'NEILL President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave t...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfo...
WILLIAM WYLER Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images t...
WILLIAM LAUD The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
WILLIAM BLIGH I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE