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  • I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

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  • Miguel de Cervantes I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Salman Rushdie Something was badly amiss with the spiritual life of the planet...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Alexander Pope Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Edmund Burke Whenever our neighbor's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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