Famous quotes containing the word rarely:
“... for the motives of acts
Are rarely the same
As their name, as their name....”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.”
—Charles Dickens (18121870)
“Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay; and, too sanguinely hoping to shine on in their meridian, often set with contempt and ridicule.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (16941773)
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