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There are far more important things in life than making a putt or missing a putt or winning a championship or losing a championship.
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There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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There are few good women who do not tire of their role.
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There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.
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There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.
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There are few men who dare to publish to the world the prayers they make to Almighty God.
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There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.
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There are few more melancholy spectacles than the litter of a room after the last guest has said 'goodbye'.
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There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
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There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.
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There are few people who are more often in the wrong than those who cannot endure to be so.
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There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.
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There are few surer ways to become disliked by men than to perform well where they have performed poorly.
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There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain for our friends. It is little better than a piece of quackery. The truth is, we think of them as we please - that is, as they please or displease us.
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There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems to us demonstrably superior to anything we ourselves possess. It augurs not merely an unfairness on the part of creation, but a lack of artistic judgment. Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.
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There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.
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There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement.
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