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“He would say untruths and be ever double, Both in his words and meaning”
William Shakespeare
“Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble”
“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.”
William Penn
“Therefore, to be possessed with double pomp,To guard a title that was rich before,To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,To throw a perfume on the violet,To smooth the ice, or add another hueUnto the rainbow, or with taper lightTo seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish,Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.”
“Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.”
Catherine Drinker Bowen
“A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Study until 25, investigate until 40, profession until 60, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.”
William Osler
“I won't not use no double negatives”
Nancy Cartwright
“In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.”
W. H. Auden
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