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Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.


Abraham Lincoln


#found #litigation #man #never #scarcely

Step by step a powerful and enterprising race has driven them back from the Atlantic to the West until at last there is scarcely a spot of ground upon which the Indians have any certainty of maintaining a permanent abode.


Nelson A. Miles


#any #atlantic #back #certainty #driven

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.


Theodore Dreiser


#civilization #guided #human #instinct #longer

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.


Charles Dickens


#changes #cradle #easy #every #every time

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.


Charles Dickens


#charity #disciples #excitement #few #less

While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.


Giovanni Boccaccio


#farmers #generally #hens #men #rooster

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.


Edward Everett


#advance #dispositions #engaged #fell #force

Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where prevailing criteria of success scarcely apply.


Brian Ferneyhough


#criteria #entering #failure #implications #instances

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.


John Keats


#come #i #i am #kick #scarcely

Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia.


Godfried Danneels


#cities #despite #earth #evident #flooded






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