Top 100 Quotes About Rarer

#1. It is here, it exists - but one must enter it naked and alone, with no rags from the falsehoods of centuries, with the purest clarity of mind - not an innocent heart, but that which is much rarer: an intransigent mind - as one's only possession and key.

Ayn Rand

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#2. Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it: nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.

Jean De La Fontaine

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#3. I do not tell you often enough, dear Mother, how very grateful I am that I am yours. It is a rare parent
who would offer a child such latitude and understanding. It is an even rarer one who calls a daughter
friend. I do love you, dear Mama.

Julia Quinn

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#4. The gritty indie films are a lot rarer than the films that aspire to fill multiplexes.

David Tennant

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#5. You're rarer than a can of Dandelion & Burdock
And those other girls are just post-mix lemonade

Arctic Monkeys

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#6. There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Robert Half

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#7. We live in a world where it's so accessible to date now, which is great. I don't judge that. We have so many ways of meeting people. I like to meet someone and have that chivalry, to take them out on a date and actually be a gentleman. I think that's becoming rarer and rarer.

Alex Pettyfer

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#8. The lift of her heart she'd felt on the outcrop she now felt again, and it wasn't just love. She'd felt love before, known its depths when her mother died.
This was something rarer. Happiness, Laurel thought, that must be what this is.

Ron Rash

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#9. Wickedness is too common in the world
for us to think much of why and wherefore.
It is more natural to ask about the rarer thing
and wonder why people sometimes do good.

Barry Unsworth

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#10. Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer;
Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it rarer;
Sweet the exultance of song, but the strain that precedes it is sweeter
And never was poem yet writ, but the meaning outmastered the meter.

Richard Realf

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#11. Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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#12. It takes two to make every great career: the man who is great, and the man-almost rarer-who is great enough to see greatness and say so.

Ayn Rand

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#13. True warfare is rarer in Nature than cannibalism.

T.H. White

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#14. Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting it.

Lionel Shriver

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#15. Oklahoma is the Bad Food Capital of the World, and Oklahoma City is as cheery as an opened casket. No one reads in that city, and bookstores are even rarer there than atheists.

Richard S. Wheeler

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#16. The key to helping our rarer species to thrive is probably simply to add more flower patches to the landscape, making it a little easier for them to find food and keep their nests well provisioned.

Dave Goulson

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#17. It's rare when an artist's talent can touch an entire generation of people. It's even rarer when that same influence affects several generations. Elvis made an imprint on the world of pop music unequaled by any other single performer.

Dick Clark

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#18. Feelings are just a fire in a field of stubble: it burns for a moment, and then all that's left is soot and ashes. Do you know what the main thing is - the thing a woman should look for in her man? She should look for a quality that's not at all exciting but that's rarer than gold: decency.

Amos Oz

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#19. Moral courage is higher and a rarer virtue than physical courage.

William Slim

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#20. A great piece of advice for online dating is to stand out from the crowd. So greetings like "hello" and "hi" are very common. They do less well than things that are a little bit quirky or a little bit weird, like "howdy" or "holla." The rarer your salutation, the better it does, in general.

Christian Rudder

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#21. Is there a rarer being,
Is there a fairer sphere
Where the strong are not unseeing,
And the harvests are not sere;
Where, ere the seasons dwindle
They yield their due return;
Where the lamps of knowledge kindle
While the flames of youth still burn?

Edmund Clarence Stedman

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#22. To sleep and being able to. Rare
To sleep and deserve it. Rarer.

Saleem Sharma

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#23. There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

Rebecca West

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#24. The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#25. In my own behalf, I rejoice that I could once think better of the world's improvability than it deserved. It is a mistake into which men seldom fall twice in a lifetime; or, if so, the rarer and higher is the nature that can thus magnanimously persist in error.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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#26. His words were rare, full conversations with him even rarer, as if Parker were one of his students that he did not want to indulge with conversation after class.

Abby Slovin

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#27. If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine own dreams I'll take And for truth commune with imaginings

Fernando Pessoa

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#28. We tell ourselves that skill is the precious resource and effort is the commodity. It's the other way around. Effort can trump ability-relentl ess effort is in fact something rarer than the ability to engage in some finely tuned act of motor coordination.

Malcolm Gladwell

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#29. Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Jean De La Fontaine

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#30. The sweetest souls, like the sweetest flowers, soon canker in cities, and no purity is rarer there than the purity of delight.

Walter Savage Landor

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#31. There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

Eugene Ionesco

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#32. Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that's rarer than a lover; it's more unselfish anyhow. My dear, I'm going to have a pretty lonely walk between this and Kingdom Come.

Bram Stoker

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#33. The metal is called Celestial bronze. It's deadly to monsters, like Imperial gold, but even rarer.

Rick Riordan

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#34. You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.

Archibald Rutledge

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#35. It is the rarest of qualities: to feel something - anything - for someone beside yourself. And in my experience it is rarer still to have empathy for people you don't know.

Francine Prose

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#36. In general, indulgence for those we know is rarer than pity for those we know not.

Antoine Rivarol

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#37. Dude, you ever taste harpy's blood? We're rarer than shit so I'm betting not. Want to go out for a drink sometime? If you put out, I might let you have a sip.

Thea Harrison

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#38. Truth telling is the first building block of character
a quality that seems to be getting rarer and rarer in all-forgiving America.

Mona Charen

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#39. Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

Ada Leverson

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#40. In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man becomes rarer: the bond of human affections is extended and loosened.

Alexis De Tocqueville

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#41. A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still he searched, one more Ithaca for which he was forever bound.

Richard Flanagan

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#42. The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's bloom, or it's garden will contain, presently, nothing but potatoes and pot-herbs.

Margaret Fuller

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#43. Blind passion was one thing, all-knowing intimacy a rarer commodity.

Stacy Schiff

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#44. Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.

Washington Allston

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#45. We all admire the spangled acrobat with classic grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the talcum light; but how much rarer art there is in the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk! I should know.

Vladimir Nabokov

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#46. For the Scottish government, the practice of having meetings in different parts of the country is well established, but for the U.K. government, it is a much rarer event.

Nicola Sturgeon

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#47. Yes, there's a higher rate of people living below the poverty line who aren't vaccinated. But it's much rarer for that to be a product of choice than a product of circumstance.

Eula Biss

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#48. Nothing is rarer than true good nature; they who are reputed to have it are generally only pliant or weak.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#49. Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.
Dry your eyes, and let's go home.

Alan Moore

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#50. There are people of spirit and there are people of passion, both less common than one might think. Rarer still are the people of spirit and passion. But rarest of all is a passionable spirit.

Martin Buber

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#51. For you are life, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly.

Alan Moore

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#52. The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is.

Maimonides

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#53. It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.

Henry Kissinger

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#54. How often does a man know, without question, that he has done well? I do not think it happens often in anyone's life, and it becomes even rarer once one has a child.

Robin Hobb

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#55. Then the true true is diff'rent to the seemin' true? said I.
Yay, an' it usually is, I mem'ry Meronym sain', an' that's why true true is presher'n'rarer'n diamonds

David Mitchell

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#56. Boldness becomes rarer, the higher the rank.

Carl Von Clausewitz

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#57. [Intellectual courage is] the quality that allows one to believe in one's judgement in the face of disappointment and widespread skepticism. Intellectual courage is even rarer than physical courage.

John Charles Polanyi

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#58. Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.

John Drinkwater

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#59. I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.

Charles Darwin

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#60. The rarer action is 35 In virtue than in vengeance. They

William Shakespeare

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#61. There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render one's self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.

Henry Clay Trumbull

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#62. It is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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#63. Selfishness is easy to find. Selflessness is a much rarer beast.

Stewart Stafford

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#64. The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

Enid Bagnold

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#65. Good advice Is Rarer Than Rubies

Salman Rushdie

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#66. The bigger the sin, the rarer and more expensive the bird that is needed to erase it. Is that how the bird pardoner conducts his business? A sparrow for a small deception, but a paradise flycatcher and a monal pheasant for allowing a doubt about His existence to enter the mind.

Nadeem Aslam

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#67. It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch.

Thor Heyerdahl

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#68. A lucky man is rarer than a white crow.

Juvenal

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#69. The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance.

William Shakespeare

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#70. occurrence - yet the rarer the event, the more confident these "scientists" involved in predicting, modeling, and using PowerPoint in conferences with equations in multicolor background have become.

Anonymous

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#71. It is in the nature of all party systems that the authentically political talents can assert themselves only in rare cases, and it is even rarer that the specifically political qualifications survive the petty maneuvers of party politics with its demands for plain salesmanship.

Hannah Arendt

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#72. All history shows that, in exact proportion as nations advance in civilisation, the accounts of miracles taking place among them become rarer and rarer, until at last they entirely cease.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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#73. I will have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole,and underwrit: Here you may see the tyrant, Macbeth

William Shakespeare

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#74. I eat meat, the rarer the better.

Dominique Swain

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#75. A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men.

William Shakespeare

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#76. It is good sometimes that the happy of this world should learn, were it only to humble their foolish pride for an instant, that there are higher, wider, and rarer joys than theirs.

Charles Baudelaire

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#77. I understood this man was a Saint," he said.
"Something even rarer," said Dr. Urbino, "An atheistic saint. But those are matters for God to decide.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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#78. Millionaire models are rare enough; but, by Jove, model millionaires are rarer still!

Oscar Wilde

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#79. In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.

Thor Heyerdahl

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#80. Very important people have told me that they prefer good listeners to good talkers, but the ability to listen seems rarer than almost any other good trait.

Dale Carnegie

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#81. Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

Andre Gide

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#82. In this world of gossip, a good listener is rarer than a great orator.

Christopher Pike

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#83. Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.

Bill Vaughan

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#84. Opportunities are rare in this life, and fairness, rarer still. So, when you discover a fair opportunity, go after as if it were your last because it very well might be.

Joel T. McGrath

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#85. I think it's becoming rarer and rarer when I consider the experiences that I've had in my life between my dad and my brother and all the men in my life who have all been gentlemen and have looked after women.

Alex Pettyfer

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#86. In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as we were, was very difficult to come by if you couldn't afford to pay them.

Twyla Tharp

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#87. Nothing is rarer than real goodness.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#88. Trust is rarer than Love.

Nicole Williams

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#89. Why risk the rare happy marriage-rarer still, a love marriage that endures-for something as common and toxic as complete, unthinking, transparent honesty? Who would be helped by my telling? Me? not at all. I was made of steel, I promise you.

William Landay

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#90. Comedians are a much rarer and far more valuable commodity than all the gold and precious stones in the world.

Groucho Marx

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#91. You could chat with anyone; being silent together without it becoming embarrassing was a lot rarer.

Harry Mulisch

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#92. I have limited experience, but I know this: moments of connection with another human being are patently rare. But rarer still are those who can recognize such a connection when they see one.

David Arnold

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#93. Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score ... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

Gordon Allport

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#94. Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

Rupert Brooke

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#95. That's the thing about friendship, it's a lot rarer than love, because there is nothing in it for any body.

Owen Wilson

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#96. Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

Charles Peguy

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#97. It is nice enough to be a child, but it is far rarer, and much more precious, to no longer be young, and to truly feel young again.

Dexter Palmer

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#98. And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.

Cassandra Clare

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#99. Laurent's fair skin and blue eyes were a combination that was rare in Patras, rarer in Akielos, and a particular weakness of Damen's.

C.S. Pacat

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#100. Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

Frederick William Faber

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