Potent Quotables: Rare

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“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
--Tacitus

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”
--Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is a rare individual who is not possessed by their possessions.”
--Jeffrey Fry

“Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.”
--Erica Jong

“Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.”
--Bayard Taylor

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are, and then wait to hear the answer."”
--Ed Cunningham

“We all have a choice. It is just rare that we happen to make the right ones.”
--Jeffrey Fry

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“Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.”
--Mark Twain

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“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.”
--Mark Twain