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• Themistocles said that he certainly could not make use of any stringed instrume
  could only, were a small and obscure city put into his hands, make it great and glorious....
• What maintains one vice, would bring up two children.
  Remember, many a little makes a mickle; and farther, beware of little expense...
• Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time
  which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man....
• A little virtue will never hurt you. -- Piet Hei
• If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal.
• There is hardly a thing in the world that some man can not make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.
• There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and he who considers price only is that man's lawful prey.
  -- John Ruski...
• To one commending an orator for his skill in amplifying petty matters, Agesilaus said, "I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Laconic Apophthegms, Of Agesilaus the Grea...
• Remember this,--that very little is needed to make a happy life.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 67...