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What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.


Simon Newcomb


#constant #could #enjoyed #fixed #guidance

On this thin, scarcely real and yet so perceptible sensation the whole world hung as on a faintly trembling axis, and this in turn rested on the two people in the room.


Robert Musil


#hung #people #perceptible #real #rested

Would it be possible that I should not in any degree succeed? I can scarcely think so. Ah delusive hope, how much further wilt thou lead me?


John James Audubon


#any #degree #delusive #further #hope

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.


Charles Babbage


#fertile #indifferent #nearly #possessions #possessors

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.


John James Audubon


#aware #better #birds #english #habits

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

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.


Elbert Hubbard


#failure #fine #know #line #often

Lettuce is like conversation; it must be fresh and crisp, so sparkling that you scarcely notice the bitter in it.


Charles Dudley Warner


#conversation #crisp #fresh #lettuce #like