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And in Sigmund's own words: "If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling, he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling; the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."

From BBC • Jul. 23, 2011

While the pen of Wu traces not seldom such poems as are expected from a Chinese gentleman, Chang scorns a lighter toy than his automatic pistol.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is not seldom in the past 50 years that the people of this country have been confronted by the prospect of widespread industrial strife.

From Time Magazine Archive

The transition of U. S. railroaders from private business men, not seldom of piratical bent, into public servants, was begun in 1887 with the founding of the Interstate Commerce Commission.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the writer’s occasional flippancy and familiarity, not seldom degenerating into the ludicrous, made him a mark for ridicule and parody on the part of his opponents, whose animosity, however, was rather political than literary.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" by Various




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