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Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.4572, e-artnow

But of works of art little can be said.

Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.429, Jazzybee Verlag

Away down the river, A hundred miles or more, Other little children Shall bring my boats ashore.

Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.13, Sparklesoup LLC

And if a man reads very hard, as the old anecdote reminds us, he will have little time for thought.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.36, Cooper Square Press

A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.

Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses”, p.3462, e-artnow

Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less.

"A neocon by any other name" by Peter Beaumont, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2008.

Well, I can admire stubbornness in a man. There is little to a man who's too easily biddable.

Robert Jordan (2009). “The Great Hunt: Book Two of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.257, Macmillan

You read too much and understand too little.

"The Shadow Rising". Book by Robert Jordan, 1992.

In the periods of crisis, the bigger firms absorb the smaller ones,and when the industrial monsters eventually go down, the wreckage is far greater than when the little enterprises buckle.

Robert L. Heilbroner (2011). “The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times And Ideas Of The Great Economic Thinkers”, p.160, Simon and Schuster

The opposing tendencies of concentration and spread are of little consequence in the liberal model of political economy.

Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.94, Princeton University Press