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  • Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.
  • Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
  • I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
  • Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
  • Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
  • Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
  • People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.
  • All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.
  • For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
  • We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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  • Joseph Addison A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Samuel Johnson A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Shirley Hazzard Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.
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  • Aesop He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Edmund Burke Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Bryant H. McGill The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Truman Capote A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
    Truman Capote
    American writer (1924 - 1984)
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  • Augustus William Hare A critic should be a pair of snuffers. He is oftener an extinguisher, and not seldom a thief.
    Guesses at Truth
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Mark Twain A man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • William Cowper A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Ansel Adams A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Thomas Hardy A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.
    Thomas Hardy
    British writer and poet (1840 - 1928)
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  • Anne Spencer A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
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  • Juvenal A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.
    Juvenal
    Roman poet
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