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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… — Thomas Jefferson
- Life Insurance trusts I consider sacred. To hazard the property of the dead & to lose the scanty earnings of fathers &… — Robert E. Lee
- The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most… — Washington Irving
- It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their… — Matthew Henry
- The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things… — John Stuart Mill
- The use of thesis-writing is to train the mind, or to prove that the mind has been trained; the former purpose is,… — Clifford Allbutt
- The dreariest spot in all the land to Death they set apart; with scanty grace from Nature's hand, and none from that… — John Greenleaf Whittier
- The trees are Indian Princes, But soon they'll turn to Ghosts; The scanty pears and apples Hang russet on the bough; Its… — William Allingham
- How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of… — Franz Kafka
- The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed.… — Thomas Paine
- Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find,… — John Stuart Mill