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“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death”
William Shakespeare quotes (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)
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“Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close”
William Wycherley quotes

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“A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.”
Walter Bagehot quotes (British political Analyst, Economist and Editor, one of the most influential journalists of the mid-Victorian period.1826-1877)

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“Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.”
Alexis de Tocqueville quotes (French Historian and Political scientist. 1805-1859)

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“The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is no shame today. We're all getting so mean and small and petty and ridiculous, and we all live under the threat of extermination.”
Norman Mailer quotes

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“The petty economics of the rich are just as amazing as the silly extravagances of the poor”
William Feather quotes
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“Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.”
Chuang Tzu quotes (The most significant of China's early interpreters of Taoism, 389-286 BC)

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“Petty laws breed great crimes”
Marie Louise De La Ramee quotes (English (pseudonym Ouida), 1839-1908)
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“We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards.”
John W. Holt, Jr. quotes
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petty synonyms: fiddling, inferior, inferiors, little, lower, lowliest, lowly, Mickey Mouse, secondary, subordinate, subordinated, subordinates, trivial.

See also: pettier.

Quotes by: Tom Petty.

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