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A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.
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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.
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As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
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At the beginning of every act of faith, there is often a seed of fear. For great acts of faith are seldom born out of calm calculation.
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Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
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Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.
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Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.
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Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.
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Folks with most to complain about seldom complain most.
Ghostwritten (2017) 350 -
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.
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For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.
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From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent.
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Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
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