Quotes with doubly

  • There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

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  • Baltasar Gracian If to talk to oneself when alone is folly, it must be doubly unwise to listen to oneself in the presence of others.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Herodotus A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
    Herodotus
    Greek historian (484 - 425)
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  • William Proxmire Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
    William Proxmire
    American politician (1915 - 2005)
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  • Sinclair Lewis There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Douglas Adams Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Sir Walter Scott When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Sophocles Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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