Scanty Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers & husbands, who have…
— Robert E. Lee
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The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are…
— Washington Irving
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It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their hearts by faith…
— Matthew Henry
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The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had…
— John Stuart Mill
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The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is, I trust, promoted,…
— Clifford Allbutt
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The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that of Art.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its Autumn, Autumn, Autumn…
— William Allingham
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How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world,…
— Franz Kafka
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The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull…
— Thomas Paine
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Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not…
— John Stuart Mill
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I bargained with Life for a penny, and Life would pay no more. However I begged at the evening when I counted my scanty store.…
— Unknown Author
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I learned about Chinese ceramics and African sculptures, I aired my scanty knowledge of the French Impressionists, and I prospered.
— Bruce Chatwin
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Research into endometriosis is as scanty as funding.
— Rose George
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The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical,…
— John Strachan
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Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I…
— Franz Liszt
Who Wrote These Scanty Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Scanty Quotes as follows: