#few men

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated. ↗

— David Low

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Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had done as a politician said the electorate does, the right thing from the wrong motive. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#could #does #done #electorate #enlisted

The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great and the mere virtuosi. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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Few men have been admired of their familiars. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

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Few men are born brave. Many become so through training and force of discipline. ↗

— Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. ↗

— Edward Abbey

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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. ↗

— Aeschylus

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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

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Few men during their lifetime comes anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. ↗

— Richard E. Byrd

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A few men own from ten thousand to two hundred thousand acres each. The poor Laborer can find no resting place, save on the barren mountain, or in the trackless desert. ↗

— Denis Kearney

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