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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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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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Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs. ↗

— David Ogilvy

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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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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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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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