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  • Benjamin Franklin Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Saadi He who is a slave to his stomach seldom worships God.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Samuel Johnson Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Richard Nixon I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Captain J. G. Stedman I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
    Captain J. G. Stedman
    British soldiar, writer, artist (1744 - 1797)
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  • Babe Paley I have seldom known a person, who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.
    Babe Paley
    American socialite and style icon (1915 - 1978)
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  • Douglas Adams I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Toni Morrison I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Aaron Stanford I've been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.
    Aaron Stanford
    American actor (1976 - )
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  • Sigmund Freud If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Jim Rohn Income seldom exceeds personal development.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Amelia Barr It is little men know of women; their smiles and their tears alike are seldom what they seem.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • David Hume It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • George Eliot It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • George Gurdjieff It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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