#seldom

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection. ↗

— Ludwig Bemelmans

#comes #constantly #creatures #existent #finding

Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#gets #grateful #grow #humble #man

A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#gets #grateful #man #much #never

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#innocent #lie #meet #round #seldom

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#boy #censorship #get #seldom #upset

The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow. ↗

— William Cowper

#innocent #pillow #seldom #uncomfortable

You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#bright #canada #ever #fellow #i

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors. ↗

— Voltaire

#female #found #inventors #learned #manner