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  • Sir Arthur Helps There is hardly a more common error than that of taking the man who has one talent, for a genius.
    Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley There is hardly any one so insignificant that he does not seem imposing to some one at some time.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Lord Chesterfield There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Ben Hecht There is hardly one in three of us who live in the cities who is not sick with unused self.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • George Orwell There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Louise Erdrich They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Hermann Broch Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.
    Hermann Broch
    Austrian writer (1886 - 1951)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline To philosophize is only another way of being afraid and leads hardly anywhere but to cowardly make-believe.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Aldous Huxley To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Alexander Herzen We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • Carl Sagan We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Georges Bernanos What a cunning mixture of sentiment, pity, tenderness, irony surrounds adolescence, what knowing watchfulness! Young birds on their first flight are hardly so hovered around.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Calvin Klein When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Josh Billings When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Mark Twain When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Cass Sunstein When it imposes expensive regulatory mandates on the private sector, Congress often acts on the basis of interest-group pressures, anecdotes, and the emotions of the moment. The executive branch is hardly perfect, but it is far less likely to do that.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Henry Fielding Without adversity a person hardly knows whether they are honest or not.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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