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A dangerous fallacy is to repudiate freedom in favor of an unknown future. What else but our own sturdy reliance on freedom can explain the… — Bernard Baruch
Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Rations were scarcely issued, and the men about preparing supper, when rumors that the enemy had been encountered that day near Gettysburg absorbed every other… — Joshua
A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period of only six… — Adolf Hitler
Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo… — Desiderius Erasmus
I can scarcely contemplate a greater calamity that could befall this country, than be loaded with a debt exceeding their ability ever to discharge. If… — Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger
Nobody since Newton has been able to use geometrical methods to the same extent for the like purposes; and as we read the Principia we… — William Whewell
You often feel that your prayers scarcely reach the ceiling; but, oh, get into this humble spirit by considering how good the Lord is, and… — Charles Simeon
The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the… — Charles Dickens
Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison than in other… — Samuel Johnson
The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The work ... was ... so blinding that I could scarcely see afterwards, and the difficulty was increased by the fact that my microscope was… — Ronald Ross
There are in fact four very significant stumblingblocks in the way of grasping the truth, which hinder every man however learned, and scarcely allow anyone… — Roger Bacon
We can scarcely avoid the inference that light consists in the transverse undulations of the same medium which is the cause of electric and magnetic… — James Clerk Maxwell
There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves. — Vincent de Paul
The musquetos continue to infest us in such manner that we can scarcely exist. My dog even howls with the torture he experiences. — Meriwether Lewis
It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. — Leo Tolstoy
Do angels take the Lord's name in vain? The idea is so ridiculous that we scarcely like to ask the question. ... How dare we… — George Q. Cannon
Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed… — Jane Austen
Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic… — Naomi Wolf
When I think of my past life, and the bitter trials I have endured, I can scarcely believe I live, and yet I do; and,… — Sarah Winnemucca
Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a… — Nelson A. Miles
While reading writers of great formulatory power — Henry James, Santayana, Proust — I find I can scarcely get through a page without having to… — Joseph Epstein

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