Quotes with twice

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  • Jean de la Fontaine It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • William Shakespeare Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man.
    King John (1596)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Cyril Connolly Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Charlotte Brontë Look twice before you leap.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • William James Mayo Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.
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  • Josh Billings Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Billy Porter Many movie stars or American Idol contestants sort of fall into theater... and say, 'Oh, yeah, I would love to do theater.' And then they get here and say, 'Oh, wait a minute, this actually is a craft!' It's not just show up one day and do it. It's show up eight times a week, twice on Wednesdays and twice on Saturdays.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • Patrick Blackett May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the possibility that an irritating failure of his apparatus to give consistent results may once or twice in a lifetime conceal an important discovery.
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  • Gloria Steinem Men should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Barry White Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
    Barry White
    American singer-songwriter, record producer and composer (1944 - 2003)
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  • Epictetus Nature gave us one tongue and two ears so we could hear twice as much as we speak.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
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  • Louis Armstrong Never play a thing the same way twice.
    Louis Armstrong
    American trumpeter, composer and singer (1901 - 1971)
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  • Lewis Carroll Now here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Tom Ogden Once I have heard the story or joke used twice by other speakers or entertainer, I avoid it.
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  • Lord Melbourne Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.
    Lord Melbourne
    British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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  • C. S. Lewis Our father was married twice,' continued Humanist. 'Once to a lady named Epichaerecacia, and afterwards to Euphuia...
    The Pilgrims Regress (1933)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Abraham Pais Progress leads to confusion leads to progress and on and on without respite. Every one of the many major advances - created sooner or later, more often sooner, new problems. These confusions, never twice the same, are not to be deplored. Rather, those who participate experience them as a privilege.
    Inward Bound: Of Matter and Forces in the Physical World (1988)
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Les Brown Review your goals twice every day in order to be focused on achieving them.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Robert Browning That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture!
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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