Quotes with obliquely

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• He who discommendeth others obliquely commendeth himself.

  ― Sir Thomas Browne
  British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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• It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

  ― André Gide
  French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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• Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

  ― Frank Moore Colby
  American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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• discommendeth
• commendeth
• difficulty
• approached
• working
• things

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