#few men

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. ↗

— Mary Stewart

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The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I am one of the few men honest enough to say they do not understand women. ↗

— Robert Menzies

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It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women. ↗

— Shirley Bassey

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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warriors. ↗

— Daniel Boone

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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. ↗

— John Updike

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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used. ↗

— Adam Clarke

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In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. ↗

— George Washington

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If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

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