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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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Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. ↗

— William Godwin

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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

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We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember. ↗

— David Antin

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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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I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

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