#seldom

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible. ↗

— Isaiah Berlin

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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

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Tyrants seldom want pretexts. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#seldom #tyrants #want

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment. ↗

— Frances Burney

#contentment #curb #diminish #enjoyment #expectation

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections. ↗

— Tony Campolo

#been #better #blatant #elections #equaled

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#anything #deliberately #deserve #does #length

I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#course #ever #golf #golf course #hour

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

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What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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