Famous quotes with Very nearly

• It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

  James A. Baldwin
• To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.

  William Cobbett
• I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.

  Greg Egan
• For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.

  Catherine the Great
• The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

  Adam Smith

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Middle Class Populations

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