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Like his lifelong subject, Saint Anthony the desert hermit, he was assailed by doubts, calling himself "a spoiled child and a paltry man".

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Think about it: In exchange for a (relatively) paltry 155 men at Guantanamo, we enrage millions worldwide.

Absent such reminders, the study found, only 65percentt of women and a paltry 31percentt of men used soap.

And against thirty-five years, a hundred and twelve days seems like a paltry penalty for Manning's extreme solitary confinement and his abuse.

The party system, especially at the national level, has left Americans with a paltry choice of men and women from which to choose in any given election.

Burke distrusted abstract formulas, dismissing France's Declaration of the Rights of Man as "paltry and blurred sheets of paper".

Mr Zell would cough up a paltry $315m small change for a man who has just pocketed at least $1 billion from the $39 billion sale of his Equity Office Properties to private-equity buyers.

The irony is that because Jeremy Corbyn is a principled man (a legendary paltry expenses claimer) and is true to his values and beliefs, he might – in this election, at least – end up being a winner, too.

I am thinking of the forest, at night, and the couple, unclothed and entangled, amidst the gnarled roots of a tree, with white hands sprouting from the earth as if to drag them down; or of the woman alone there, pleasuring herself in a kind of fury, with the man — and his paltry pleasures — no longer required.

The numbers are more split for the 18-29 age bracket, where 77percentt of men and 57percentt of women say they play video games but 33percentt of men and a paltry 9percentt of women identify as gamers.

If the boy was "disgusted with the diminutive rivalries [and] the paltry altercations... of our public men," he should remember that men will rail "at each other... as long as there are prizes to contend for which move their avarice or their ambition".

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