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«Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.»
Author: Dorothy Day
(Founder, Journalist)
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cling, cling to, in name, likeness, nobility, scarcely
«While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.»
«The struggle against demagoguery scarcely fits the St George-against-the-dragon myth Our democratic St George goes out rather reluctantly with armor awry.»
Author: Norman Thomas
(Social Reformer)
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awry, demagoguery, dragon, fits, goes out, reluctantly, scarcely, St George
«The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean / when boredom seems the very stuff of life.»
«We flatter those we scarcely know,We please the fleeting guest,And deal full many a thoughtless blowTo those who love us best.»
«The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.»
Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(Poet)
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aristocracy, barbarism, chivalry, disgusting, forerunner, forerunners, odious, republicanism, ruins, scarcely
«Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.»
«The history of human opinion is scarcely anything, more than the history of human errors»
Author: Voltaire
(Philosopher, Writer)
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History
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human error, scarcely, The History of
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