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title: "9 Hardly Anybody Quotes by 9 authors"
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> [Before Birdseye, hardly anybody ate frozen food because it was awful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-kurlansky/before-birdseye-hardly-anybody-ate-frozen-food-because-it-was-awful/)

[Mark Kurlansky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-kurlansky/)

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> [I got noticed back in the day because hardly anybody else was consistently making covers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonita-gandhi/i-got-noticed-back-in-the-day-because-hardly-anybody-else-was/)

[Jonita Gandhi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonita-gandhi/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5bc/jonita-gandhi-6036_back_i-got-noticed-back-in-the-day-because-ha_1686839.jpg)

> [Hardly anybody in America pays attention to local elections.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jello-biafra/hardly-anybody-in-america-pays-attention-to-local-elections/)

[Jello Biafra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jello-biafra/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/138/jello-biafra-5188_america_hardly-anybody-in-america-pays-attention_2717617.png)

> [If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/agatha-christie/if-one-sticks-too-rigidly-to-one-s-principles-one-would-hardly-see/)

[Agatha Christie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/agatha-christie/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0b6/agatha-christie-154_integrity_if-one-sticks-too-rigidly-to-one-s-princ_1113627.jpg)

> [There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lord-chesterfield/there-is-hardly-anybody-good-for-everything-and-there-is-scarcely/)

[Lord Chesterfield](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lord-chesterfield/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/322/lord-chesterfield-757_quote_there-is-hardly-anybody-good-for-everyth_2158698.jpg)

> [“There’s hardly anybody who doesn’t hate somebody now, and nobody at all whom somebody doesn’t hate.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-franzen/there-s-hardly-anybody-who-doesn-t-hate-somebody-now-and-nobody-at/)

[Jonathan Franzen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-franzen/)

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> [Hardly anybody recognizes the most significant moments of their life at the time they happen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/hardly-anybody-recognizes-the-most-significant-moments-of-their-life/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/508/anonymous-1_life_hardly-anybody-recognizes-the-most-signi_544505.jpg)

> [“Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough, for he had nothing to do, and she had hardly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jane-austen/half-the-sum-of-attraction-on-either-side-might-have-been-enough-for/)

[Jane Austen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jane-austen/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ef3/jane-austen-39_half_half-the-sum-of-attraction-on-either-sid_447926.jpg)

> [“Hardly anybody is exactly normal in any way, just as one hundred tossed pennies will rarely come up exactly fifty heads and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/darrell-huff/hardly-anybody-is-exactly-normal-in-any-way-just-as-one-hundred/)

[Darrell Huff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/darrell-huff/)

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