#scarcely

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

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

— David Antin

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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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What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ↗

— Jean Paul

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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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The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. ↗

— E. B. White

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