#scarce

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour. ↗

— Georg Brandes

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Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge. ↗

— James Thurber

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My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein. ↗

— George Washington

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I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent. ↗

— George Washington

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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

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To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. ↗

— Jimmy Buffett

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Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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