Quotes with amiss

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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.

  ― Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• 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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• Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

  ― Alexander Pope
  English poet (1688 - 1744)
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• 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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Subjects in these quotes:

• conversation
• something
• spiritual
• claiming
• whenever
• neighbor

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