#scarcely

Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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#danger #debts #escaped #every #great

She gave me another piece of information which excited other feelings in me, scarcely less dreadful. Infants were sometimes born in the convent; but they were always baptized and immediately strangled! ↗

— Maria Monk

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#another #baptized #born #convent #dreadful

But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself. ↗

— Russell Hoban

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#i #killing #living #myself #scarcely