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Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common. — Baltasar Gracian

A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. — Thomas Jefferson

Everyone can write a cliche. What's rare is to write them often and unashamedly enough that people quote it as if it's some deep shit. — Jimmy Lo

It's so rare, especially as a younger actor, to find a role where it's not just one-dimensional and it's not just a stock leading man. — Matt Bomer

A fair degree of literacy of speech ... is increasingly rare in politicians and not necessarily regarded as an asset. — Rae Foley

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days. — James Russell Lowell

Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach. — Ian McEwan

As you get older, the ability to change becomes a very rare thing. You'll see. — Andersen Prunty

For a moment something almost as rare as the sight that they had just witnessed occurred: Loki was totally lost for words. — Joanne Harris

I agree. However, this one appears to belong to a rare species known as the barrier pigeon. — D.A. Bonds

A book? O, rare one,
Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment
Nobler than that it covers. — William Shakespeare

Common sense used to be a great trait for one to have, and hence the name, common it was plentiful. Today's it's as rare as the Dodo bird. — M.A. Bookout

Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare - and precious as a pearl. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

A native of America who cannot read or write is ... as rare as a comet or an earthquake. — John Adams

Why can't a girl be smart without it being explained away as a rare supernatural phenomenon? — Cat Winters

a flesh-and-blood waiter and therefore as rare in San Francisco as a flying horse, — Christie Golden

No not at all ... it is rare for shows to make it as long as Once and Again ... It was a pretty good run. — Sela Ward

And then I fell suddenly calm, and lay smiling at the glittering death, as a child at some rare bauble. — Edgar Allan Poe

Nothing in the world is so rare as a person one can always put up with. — Giacomo Leopardi

An historian without political passions is as rare as a wasp without a sting. — Agnes Repplier

As a general rule, biology tends to be conservative. It's rare that evolution 'invents' the same process several times. — Gero Miesenbock

My love is of a birth as rare
As 'tis, for object, strange and high;
It was begotten by Despair
Upon Impossibility. — Andrew Marvell

Well, perhaps you've caught me at a rare moment of weakness. The greatest gift is to be loved as I have been loved. As I love. — Jillian Hart

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff. — Rick Springfield

Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare. — Henry James

Nothing is so rare as a man who gets everything he wants in life, — Robert J. Crane

Erudition without pedantry is as a rare as wisdom itself. — George Sarton

There seems to be a general impression that to be known as normal in Hollywood is akin to being labeled as rare animal in a zoo. — Irene Dunne

Nothing is so rare as a collection of really intelligent short stories. — Morley, Christopher

I can see why you're fond of Jackaby."
"Hah! He's as rare a breed as they come-that's the truth!"
Jackaby rolled his eyes. — William Ritter

I was a Hollywood musical fan as a kid, and I know how rare it is for someone who originates the Broadway role to get to then do it on screen. — John Lloyd Young

Use our memories as an asset not as a liability. Don't let it be our inner curse but share them as a rare gift. — Angelica Hopes

It's an engrossing look at the way the flow of information shapes history-as well as a rare glimpse into the soul of the hardcore geek — Lev Grossman

Fatigue was a drug as well as a poison, and Stahr apparently derived some rare almost physical pleasure from working lightheaded with weariness. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The least likely person you'll see in church is a single twentysomething male. He is as rare at church as a vegan at a steak house. — Mark Driscoll

Good characters are rare. As long as I find one or two a year, I'm happy. — Ludivine Sagnier

Being born a human being is a rare event in itself, and it is wise to use this opportunity as beneficially as possible. — Dalai Lama XIV

Reading great dialogue as an actor is such a rare privilege. — Max Casella

One should see any opportunity to serve as a rare and precious gift ... and never waste such an opportunity. — Mata Amritanandamayi

She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven. — Nicholas Sparks

Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out. — Frederick Douglass

To have a job you can count on as an actor is so rare, whether that means belonging to a regional theater company or being on TV. — Jim Parsons

True friendship is as rare as twin lotuses on a single stalk. — Lauren Bjorkman

Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird. — Laird Barron

The universe now appeared to me as a void wherein floated rare flakes of snow, each flake a universe. — Olaf Stapledon

Honesty is as rare as a man without self-pity. — Stephen Vincent Benet

A person who seeks not only to listen but to understand as well is rare - a treasure. And rare treasures are priceless. — Anonymous

A true photographer is as rare as a true poet or a true painter. — Jean Cocteau

True rebels after all, are as rare as true lovers,and in both cases, to mistake a fever for passion can destroy one's life — James Baldwin

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study. — Theodore Parker

A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan. — Juvenal

Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well. — Bill Walton

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one. — Thomas Carlyle

Mostly, I have to say as an actor, to find a character that's been rich enough for 10 seasons of shows ... that's very rare. — Jon Cryer

Rare as rocking-horse turds, these days, feeling halfway to decent, with barely a sick twinge, and he was damned if he'd waste — Tim Winton

She was one of those rare women who recognized that life is finite and saw orgasms as a wonderful distraction. — Anonymous

Heaven sometimes hedges a rare character about with ungainliness and odium, as the burr that protects the fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson