#few men

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. ↗

— Sallust

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Of history, how little do we know by personal contact; we have lived a few years, seen a few men, witnessed some important events; but what are these in the whole sum of the world's past. ↗

— Matthew Simpson

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Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated. ↗

— David Low

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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

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The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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Few men have been admired of their familiars. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. ↗

— Edward Abbey

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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ↗

— Aeschylus

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