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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious. ↗

— Horace

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Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker. ↗

— David Hume

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I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. ↗

— George Bentham

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A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find. ↗

— James Stephens

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Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions. ↗

— Luke Ford

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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

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I hate careless flattery, the kind that exhausts you in your efforts to believe it. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

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We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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