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«Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen»
«Scarcely a tear to shed;Hardly a word to say;The end of a Summer's day;Sweet Love is dead.»
Author: William Allingham
(Man of letter, Poet)
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dead end, hardly a, scarcely, shed, summer sweet, tear
«Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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composition, graphic, graphics, native, Native American, rewards, satisfies, scarcely, urge
«There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased,They scarcely come inclining to be pleased:And sure he must have more than mortal Skill,Who please one against his Will.»
«The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths -- they haven't any.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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depths, fathom, fathomed, fathoms, Germans, scarcely
«There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.»
«Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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absurdity, gross, public opinion, scarcely
«There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Writers
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celebrated, delighted, Groves, In a Grove, melody, rivulet, scarcely, The Whisper
«Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound; great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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cannon, cannons, debts, loud noise, scarcely
«There is scarcely any part of science or any thing in nature, which those impostors and blasphemers of science, called priests, as well as Christians and Jews, have not, at some time or other, perverted, or sought to pervert to the purpose of superst»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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Nature,
Religion,
Science
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blasphemer, blasphemers, Christians, Christian Science, impostor, impostors, Jews, pervert, perverted, perverting, perverts, priests, scarcely, sought
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