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«Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it»
«He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day»
«But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself.»
«If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting and insertion. Indeed, the least social of mammals mate with scarcely more ceremony. The species that have evolved long-term bonds are also, by and large, the ones that rely on elaborate courtship rituals. . . . Love and sex do indeed go together.»
Author: Edward O. Wilson
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biological, bonds, by and large, ceremony, courtship, economically, elaborate, elaborated, evolved, go together, insemination, insertion, mammal, mammals, mate, mounting, one species, rely, rituals, scarcely, seconds, social function, sole, species, term
«Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time w»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
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Genius
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at a time, continuous, efforts, On the Line, scarcely, thrown
«But answer came there none - / And this was scarcely odd because / They'd eaten every one.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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eaten, odd, scarcely, This Was
«His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere»
«Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applauses which he cannot keep; so that scarcely can two persons meet, but one is offended or diverted by the ostentation of the other»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life,
Relationships
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display, divert, diverted, diverting, diverts, offended, ostentation, scarcely, wastes
«Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
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all four, corners, ever so, Four Corners, lightly, perceptible, scarcely, spider, spider web, web
«By economy and good management -- by a sparing use of ready money and by paying scarcely anybody, -- people can manage to make a great show with very little means.»
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