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Quotes About Doubly

There was a powerful and effulgent smell of industrial disinfectant. It's a smell that never reassures you about cleanliness; rather, it makes you doubly squeamish of lurking vileness. Soap smells clean, disinfectant smells dirty. Funny that.
~ A.A. Gill
Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.
~ Richard Baxter
Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.
~ Richard Baxter
Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.
~ William Proxmire
Then everything includes itself in power,Power into will, will into appetite;And appetite, a universal wolf,So doubly seconded with will and power,Must make perforce a universal prey,And last eat up himself.
~ William Shakespeare
Hollow is the head of a fool. And everyone who listens only to the echoes bouncing in his skull, believing them true, is doubly a fool. Yet these echoes are all we ever hear. Beliefs feeding into beliefs, mindless as serpents devouring their own tail.
~ Steven Erikson
Un ser ausente de su belleza es doblemente más bello
~ Violette Leduc
We are not where we are, he finds, but in a false position. Through an infirmity of our natures, we suppose a case, and put ourselves into it, and hence are in two cases at the same time, and it is doubly difficult to get out
~ Paul Auster