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Births

• 1958 - Tom Feeney
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• Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.

  Bob Monkhouse

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• Tyrants are seldom free; the cares and the instruments of their tyranny enslave them.

  George Santayana

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• Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.

  Emily Giffin

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• A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

  George D. Prentice

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• To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

  Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• When you write a song, it may come from a personal space, but it very seldom actually represents you. It comes out of a sort of mood of melancholy, somehow. It’s almost theatrical.

  James Taylor

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  There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

  Carol Shields

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• The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet – when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

  Elizabeth Bowen

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• Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.

  Richard Wagner

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• I’ve been recognized very seldom. I think I just look different in person than I do as the character.

  Aaron Stanford

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• Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

  Thomas Carlyle

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• A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript.

  Richard Steele

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• A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

  Joseph Addison

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• A good horse should be seldom spurred.

  Thomas Fuller

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• The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

  Mason Cooley

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• How seldom we weigh our neighbor in the same balance with ourselves.

  Thomas a Kempis

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• The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

  Thomas Jefferson

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• Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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• Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

  Benjamin Franklin

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• A widow’s refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

  Samuel Richardson

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