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Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in… — Herman Melville
What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce. — Mark Twain
I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned… — Emily Dickinson
Life's a forge - Yes, and hammer and anvil, too. You'll be roasted, smelted, and pounded, and you'll scarce know what's happening to you. But… — Lloyd Alexander
With you a part of me hath passed away; For in the peopled forest of my mind A tree made leafless by this wintry wind… — George Santayana
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi) — Albert Einstein
O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for… — William Shakespeare
He is not easy to describe. There is something wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I never saw a man I so… — Robert Louis Stevenson
We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be… — Jacqueline Carey
Let every book-worm, when in any fragrant, scarce old tome, he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. — Adam Smith
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at… — Benjamin Franklin
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door;… — Edgar Allan Poe
He looked at a world of incredible loveliness. Old distaff Celt's blood in some back chamber of his brain moved him to discourse with the… — Cormac McCarthy
Long, blue, spiky-edged shadows crept out across the snow-fields, while a rosy glow, at first scarce discernible, gradually deepened and suffused every mountain-top, flushing the… — John Muir
I feel my griefs too, and there scarce is ground Upon my flesh t'inflict another wound. Yet dare I not complain, or wish for death… — Ben Jonson
--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any… — Thomas Hardy
……, but as I am a scholar I feel obliged to document what it is like here, most of the time, between the dramatic climaxes.… — Margaret Edson
The life so brief, the art so long in the learning, the attempt so hard, the conquest so sharp, the fearful joy that ever slips… — Geoffrey Chaucer
When everything is subject to money, then the scarcity of money makes everything scarce, including the basis of human life and happiness. Such is the… — Charles Eisenstein
Last winter, when so many Living joined the Dead and our prey became scarce, I watched some of my friends become full-dead. The transition was… — Isaac Marion
Midway along the journey of our life I woke to find myself in a dark wood, for I had wandered off from the straight path.… — Dante Alighieri
All my life I have placed great store in civility and good manners, practices I find scarce among the often hard-edged, badly socialized scientists with… — E. O. Wilson

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