#seldom

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When morality comes up against profit, it is seldom that profit loses.


Shirley Chisholm


#comes #loses #morality #profit #seldom

A Protestant has seldom any mercy shown him, and a Jew, who turns Christian, is far from being secure.


John Foxe


#being #christian #far #him #jew

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.


Benjamin Franklin


#good #never #reason #seldom #without

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.


Benjamin Franklin


#best #business #carrying #considering #execution

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.


Benjamin Franklin


#day #every #every day #felicity #fortune

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.


Sigmund Freud


#along #been #brings #confidence #darling

A good horse should be seldom spurred.


Thomas Fuller


#horse #seldom #should #spurred

To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.


Georg C. Lichtenberg


#cleverest #err #far #human #least

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.


A. J. Liebling


#although #away #carry #department #difficulty

People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.


Bernard de Mandeville


#belly #big #concealing #consequences #exposed