#seldom

What we anticipate seldom occurs: but what we least expect generally happens. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his. ↗

— James Thurber

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For life is but a dream whose shapes return, some frequently, some seldom, some by night and some by day. ↗

— James Thomson

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Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere. ↗

— Arthur E. Waite

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Men are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. ↗

— Horace Walpole

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Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds. ↗

— Charlotte Whitton

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I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. ↗

— Saul Williams

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Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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