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  • Marcel Proust Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Edward Dahlberg Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Samuel Johnson He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Plato He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Plato He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • A. J. P. Taylor History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Boris Becker How do you build a relationship when you've hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you don't see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter?
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Robert A. Heinlein Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.
    Robert A. Heinlein
    American science fiction writer (1907 - 1988)
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  • Daisy Ashford I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.
    Daisy Ashford
    English writer (1881 - 1972)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Plato I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Bruce Willis I like a little movie I did in the early nineties called 'Mortal Thoughts.' The part was hardly written, but I learned a lot making it. No one remembers it.
    Bruce Willis
    American actor, producer, and singer (1955 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Agatha Christie If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Arthur Henderson In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Carroll Quigley Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Abe Fortas It can hardly be argued that either students or teachers shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.
    Tinker v. Des Moines Indep. Community School Dist. (1969)
    Abe Fortas
    American lawyer and jurist (1910 - 1982)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is the rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution which destroys the machinery but the friction. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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