#scarcely

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

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#attachment #corners #ever #fiction #four

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten. ↗

— Isoroku Yamamoto

#having #himself #man #matter #military

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour. ↗

— Georg Brandes

#day #did #happy #hour #i

We can scarcely hate anyone that we know. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#hate #know #scarcely

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#ephemeral #ever #motive #outlasts #particular

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

For, with pure water the inversion of cane sugar scarcely proceeds and subsequently it required very thorough, difficult studies before this effect and its order of magnitude were established. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#cane #difficult #effect #established #inversion

If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me." and "Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#brethren #god #i #i do #kill

My object will be, if possible, to form Christian men, for Christian boys I can scarcely hope to make. ↗

— Thomas Arnold

#form #hope #i #i can #make