#rare

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. ↗

— Stephen Vincent Benet

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Rarely have elected leaders been so intent on defying the public will. ↗

— Scott Brown

#defying #elected #intent #leaders #public

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#life #rare #well-spent #well-written

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to. ↗

— Joe Chung

#authoritarian #democracy #rarely #state #those

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#always #artist #authentic #bad #decent

I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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The strongest are those who renounce their own times and become a living part of those yet to come. The strongest and the rarest. ↗

— Milovan Djilas

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Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events. ↗

— John Drinkwater

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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! ↗

— Anatole France

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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. ↗

— Yehudi Menuhin

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