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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.
David Hume
A woman, the more curious she is about her face, is commonly the more careless about her house.
Ben Jonson
Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul.
Mark Twain
Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.
Honore De Balzac
Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
Earl Derr Biggers
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
Pierre Loti
I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it.
Wilson Mizner
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.
Margaret Walker
Is it not careless to become too local when there are four hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone.
A. R. Ammons
Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
Luke Ford
Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.
Diane Wood
Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'
Mary Todd Lincoln
Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
Horace
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Victor Hugo
That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
Robert Browning
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
Irving Babbitt
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We hold our hate too choice a thing, for light and careless lavishing.
William Watson
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein
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