Sentence examples for less quoted from inspiring English sources

Less quoted than Paul's advice that it is better to marry than to be engulfed by desire is what he says earlier in the passage: "I wish that all were as I myself am.

While Philip Larkin famously observed that "they fuck you up your mum and dad," his less quoted next line "they do not mean to but they do," hits the nail on the head.

Which is why, 35 years on, Adele is more or less quoting it.

"If one's reach does not exceed one's grasp then what is heaven for?" he asked, more or less quoting Robert Browning.

Raymond Williams, who died in 1988 aged 66, is widely honoured in sentiment, but less frequently quoted, or perhaps even read any more.

In a less widely quoted passage from his speech, Obama called the Republican budget "antithetical to our entire history as a land of opportunity and upward mobility for everybody who's willing to work for it".

In a passage rather less frequently quoted by animal rightists, Bentham defended eating animals on the grounds that "we are the better for it, and they are never the worse...

From there, the traveler can follow him 150 miles to Chicago, his "City of the Big Shoulders" (which, in a less often quoted line, he went on to address: "They tell me you are wicked and I believe them").

But less frequently quoted is the subsequent modification that appended the conditional ou la mort (or death) to that expression.

Christians in the region tend to be no less conservative, quoting the Bible's teachings that marriage is between a man and a woman.

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