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Contemplating Clodia I find scarcely a drop in my heart of that compassion which Epicurus enjoins us to extend toward the erring. — Thornton Wilder

Once upon a time there was a little prince who lived on a planet scarcely bigger than himself and who had need for a friend. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. — Lydia M. Child

It seemed scarcely a moment since she had made it back home, — Michael Dobbs

A FRIEND Is a wellspring of understanding. A catch basin for grimy little secrets that can scarcely be voiced. — Ellen Hopkins

Topics of conversation among the multitude are generally persons, sometimes things, scarcely ever principles. — William Benton Clulow

Wise men learn by others' harms, fools scarcely by their own. — Benjamin Franklin

Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it. — Christina, Queen Of Sweden

I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it. — Boethius

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what. — Mary Wollstonecraft

If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world. — Joseph Hall

-tomorrow is our permanent address
and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,
we'll move away still further:into now — E. E. Cummings

Jean Piaget observed that scarcely any question seems absurd to a child, but he was silent on the question of absurd answers from adults. — Nancy Willard

They have scarcely finished burying the dead from the last battle, and already they are practicing for the next one. — George R R Martin

The major reason for Keynes's rejection of communism was simply that he could scarcely identify with the grubby proletariat. — Murray Rothbard

It taught me to hope," said he, "as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before." Mr. Darcy - Pride and Prejudice — Jane Austen

Without risk in our lives, we're scarcely better than machines ourselves. — Alastair Reynolds

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor. — George Washington

She had
become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the
air he breathed
necessary but scarcely noticed. — O. Henry

A deviation from propriety scarcely ever escapes punishment. — Regina Maria Roche

For a whole generation after the battle of Pydna, the Roman state enjoyed a profound calm, scarcely varied by a ripple here and there on the surface. — Theodor Mommsen

We scarcely want to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human. — Virginia Woolf

We went to labor in the fields, my wife and I, hand in hand. Scarcely were we conscious of the fatigues of the day. Heaven always blessed our toil. — Toussaint Louverture

Scarcely is there any peace so unjust that it is better than even the fairest war. -Vix ulla tam iniqua pax, quin bello vel aequissimo sit potior — Desiderius Erasmus

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day. — John Bunyan

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what. — Mason Cooley

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius ... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much. — William Godwin

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs. — Charles Dickens

History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death. — Edward Gibbon

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

Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen. — Mary Wortley Montagu

Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back. — Joe Abercrombie

The past goes right on pulling me apart, though I can scarcely remember the people or the issues. — Mason Cooley

In love we do not think of moral qualities, and scarcely of intellectual ones. Temperament and manner alone, with beauty, excite love. — William Hazlitt

Scarcely one person in a thousand is capable of tasting the happiness of others. — Henry Fielding

Memories feign through scarcely perceived doors of my being. — Haruki Murakami

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art. — Baltasar Gracian

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. — Virginia Woolf

It is a great misfortune to be of use to nobody; scarcely less to be of use to everybody. — Baltasar Gracian

Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see. — Jane Bowles

She had once been the belle of her circle of small tradesmen and salesmen, but now her little pig eyes with their swollen lids could scarcely open. — Boris Pasternak

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive. — Joanna Lumley

For he could scarcely make them move together to grip a twig, and they seemed remote from his body and from him. — Jack London

When we our betters see bearing our woes,
We scarcely think our miseries our foes. — William Shakespeare

What has to be done can scarcely be termed heroic! Master — Anne McCaffrey

Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our own. — Ovid

Angels belong to a uniquely different dimension of creation which we, limited to the natural order, can scarcely comprehend. — Billy Graham

Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. — Charlotte Bronte

Academic training in beauty is a sham. We have been so deceived, but so well deceived that we can scarcely get back even a shadow of the truth. — Pablo Picasso

How have you left the ancient love That bards of old enjoyed in you! The languid strings do scarcely move! The sound is forced, the notes are few! — William Blake

Not that it was not a nightmare. It was, but of a very special kind he was scarcely old enough to appreciate. — Malcolm Lowry

Woe is me! how high art Thou in the highest, and how deep in the deepest! and Thou never departest, and we scarcely return to Thee. — Augustine Of Hippo

Now the night's breath responds to the sea, which I can scarcely hear from here, as it reminisces about its shipwrecks. — Joe Bousquet

Scarcely a day goes by without some claim that new technologies are fast writing newsprint's obituary. — Rupert Murdoch

The best school in the world will scarcely save a boy who hates the school and the purpose it serves and the society that created it. — Gilbert Highet

I can scarcely believe the cruelty of the last century. It staggers the soul. — Douglas Preston

[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science. — Thomas B. Macaulay

I can scarcely contemplate a more incalculable evil than the breaking of the Union into two or more parts. — Thomas Jefferson

It is safe to make a choice of your thoughts, scarcely ever safe to express them all. — Isaac Barrow

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery. — Samuel Johnson

Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory. — Henry Ward Beecher

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything. — Louisa May Alcott

There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt. — P.T. Barnum

When the economies of emerging markets don't just grow but beat expectations, there's scarcely a mention. — Kenneth Fisher

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. — Abraham Lincoln

What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Miss you, he said. It was the barest murmur, scarcely a sound. — Loretta Chase

Morning made a considerable difference in my general prospects of Life and brightened it so much that is scarcely seemed the same. — Charles Dickens

Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. — Leo Tolstoy

Life is short and we have scarcely begun to live when we are called to die. — Charles Spurgeon

The mad joy over the prisoners who were saved, had astounded him scarcely less than the mad ferocity against those who were cut to pieces. — Charles Dickens

He cannot think. He can scarcely breathe. But he has no desire to either, he simply wants to keep kissing her. — Sara Sheridan

Pedigree and ancestry and what we ourselves have not achieved, I scarcely recognize as our own. — Ovid

How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you. — Robert Louis Stevenson

You will find that even injustice is scarcely worthy of what you believe yourself to be. — William Faulkner

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. — E.B. White

The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence. — Hannah More

I have scarcely touched the sky and I am made of it. — Antonio Porchia

Well, he was scarcely a parfit gentil knight; as Wolfie said, he looked like some Hollywood Geronimo trying to kick a ninety-dollar habit. — Peter Matthiessen

It scarcely made a column of newspaper space, but it wrote headlines in their lives. — Erich Segal

He found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. — F Scott Fitzgerald

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Well, you've taken a weight off my mind."
"A mind, I should imagine, scarcely constructed to bear great
weights. — P.G. Wodehouse

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top. — John Keats

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on. — F Scott Fitzgerald

When one's home has a really excellent computer capable of reaching other computers anywhere in the Galaxy, one scarcely needs to budge, you know. — Isaac Asimov

Any strain upon a girl's intellect is to be dreaded, and any attempt to bring women into competition with men can scarcely escapefailure. — Elizabeth Missing Sewell

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread. — Thomas Jefferson

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little. — Hannah More

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror. — Edmund Burke

Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles. — Thomas Carlyle

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it — Andrew Carnegie

This morning he had been so heartsick and weary he could scarcely stand, but now his fury was on him, filling him with strength. — George R R Martin

Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison than in other places. Yet ... — Samuel Johnson

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it. — Jesse Stuart

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere. — Mark Twain

Love ... is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself — James Joyce

There is scarcely one figure in the entire Hebrew scripture we would want our children to emulate. — Harvey Cox

Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved. — St. Jerome

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia. — Richard Wilbur