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It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit.

William Shakespeare
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.

Benjamin Franklin
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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

Edgar Watson Howe
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Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.

Jonathan Swift
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Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.

Joel Rosenberg
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To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

William Wordsworth
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The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a 'but'.

Henry Ward Beecher
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ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.

Ambrose Bierce
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That man who lives for self alone - lives for the meanest mortal known.

Joaquin Miller
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If there are cuts to be made, why should we make them on food stamps? ... This is the meanest cut of all.

David Scott
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Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Arthur Christopher Benson
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