Quotes with insufficiency

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• Children know how to be cruel, and the cruelty of their elders is the surest residue of the malaise the young feel toward things strange, things other, things that reveal our own ignorance or insufficiency.

  Carlos Fuentes
  Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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• One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

  Jeremy Collier
  English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• insufficiency
• certainty
• discover
• malaise
• strange
• things

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