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I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it. — Boethius
The difference between good and bad cookery can scarcely be more strikingly shown than in the manner in which sauces are prepared and served. If… — Eliza Acton
How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the… — William Blake
...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those… — Thomas Carlyle
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely… — Benjamin Jowett
Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to… — Eugen Herrigel
The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I… — Astley Cooper
I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts. — Thomas Jefferson
The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of a man who… — Warren Buffett
On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy, or learning-regions where the years are… — Freya Stark
In the relations of humans with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic scarcely seen… — Victor Hugo
I see the origin of the irresistible attraction of metaphor and analogy, the explanation of our strange and permanent need to find similarities in things.… — Roger Caillois
I always considered an idle Life, as a real evil, but, a life of such hurry, such constant hurry, leaves us scarcely a moment for… — Edward Rutledge
Not only does the world scarcely know who the Latin American man is, the world has barely cared. — Georgie Anne Geyer
Once you're labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination - employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity,… — Michelle Alexander
Men who sincerely abhorred the word Communism in the pursuit of common ends found that they were unable to distinguish Communists from themselves…. For men… — Whittaker Chambers
Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves. — Alastair Reynolds
I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour. — Georg Brandes
I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. — Antonio Porchia
If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us. — Peter Matthiessen
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog. — Charles Darwin
I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material… — Winston Churchill
There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds,… — Samuel Johnson
Japanese affection is not uttered in words; it scarcely appears even in the tone of voice; it is chiefly shown in acts of exquisite courtesy… — Lafcadio Hearn

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