#scarcely

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

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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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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

#best #ever #gives #must #nature

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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I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like a disgusting human being - it's self-care and it has to happen, but I get very restless. ↗

— Laura Linney

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Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books. ↗

— Anton Seidl

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They had scarcely established themselves, however, before another company of Jackson county citizens, chiefly from around Independence, organized to drive them off. ↗

— Cole Younger

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