Rare
Early.
Nearly raw; partially cooked; not thoroughly cooked; underdone; as, rare beef or mutton.
Not frequent; seldom met with or occurring; unusual; as, a rare event.
Of an uncommon nature; unusually excellent; valuable to a degree seldom found.
Thinly scattered; dispersed.
Characterized by wide separation of parts; of loose texture; not thick or dense; thin; as, a rare atmosphere at high elevations.
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Rare Quotations
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
Madness is rare in individuals - but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
Friedrich Nietzsche
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
Henry David Thoreau
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. Thompson
Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.
Coco Chanel
Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.
Anais Nin
Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, I had the advantage of being the first one out.
Frederick Douglass
Rare Translations
rare in Afrikaans is skaars
rare in Dutch is zeldzaam, ongemeen, schaars
rare in German is selten, rar
rare in Latin is rarus
rare in Portuguese is raro
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