It is very nearly impossible to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind. James Baldwin
Matilda told such dreadful lies, It made one gasp and stretch one's eyes Her aunt, who, from her earliest youth, Had kept a strict regard for truth, Attempted to believe Matilda The effort very nearly killed her. Hilaire Belloc
A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen. Edward de Bono
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility. William Cobbett
A Proper Tea is much nicer than a Very Nearly Tea, which is one you forget about afterwards. A. A. Milne
Revolutionaries themselves are the last people to realize when, through force of time and circumstance, they have gradually become conservatives. It is scarcely to be wondered at if the public is very nearly as slow in the uptake. Constant Lambert