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I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives. – Leo Tolstoy	added by anonymous 13 years ago
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. – Charles Caleb Colton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. – Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays (1928), "Eastern and Western Ideals of Happiness"	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He that is good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
A dog owns nothing, yet is seldom dissatisfied. – Irish Proverb	added by anonymous 13 years ago
People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail. – Richard Russo	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Well behaved women seldom make history. – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich	added by anonymous 13 years ago
[Mankind] is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it. – Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger, Chapter IX	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. – Learned Hand	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Nothing is less sincere than our mode of asking and giving advice. He who asks seems to have a deference for the opinion of his friend, while he only aims to get approval of his own and make his friend responsible for his action. And he who gives advice repays the confidence supposed to be placed in him by a seemingly disinterested zeal, while he seldom means anything by his advice but his own interest or reputation. – Francois De La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 13 years ago
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it is lost. – C. C. Colton	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laugther, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung. – Prof. F. A. P. Aveling	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The parent who gets down on the floor to play with a child on Christmas Day is usually doing a most remarkable thing -- something seldom repeated during the rest of the year. These are, after all, busy parents committed to their work or their success in the larger society, and they do not have much left-over time in which to play with their children. – Brian Sutton-Smith	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us. – Jean De La Bruyere	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Pride is seldom delicate; it will please itself with very mean advantages. – Johnson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless. – Clarence Day	added by anonymous 13 years ago
He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero. – Johann Kaspar Lavater	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted. – Francis Quarles	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Why is it that, as we grow older, we are so relunctant to change It is not so much that new ideas are painful, for they are not. It is that old ideas are seldom entirely false, but have truth, great truth in them. The justification for conservatism is the desire to preserve the truths and standards of the past its dangers, of which we are seldom aware, is that in preserving those values, we may miss the infinitely greater riches that lie in the future. – Dr. Dale E. Turner	added by anonymous 14 years ago
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. – H.L. Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day. – Lyndon B. Johnson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We seldom attribute common sense except to those who agree with us. – La Rochefoucauld	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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