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Gravely Quotes
On warnings and consequences taken seriously
Gravely signals real stakes throughout this set, from predictions that the City would be gravely damaged by leaving the E.U. to a woman gravely warned that writing a book could cost her Bad reputation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.
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I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.
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- Nov 07, 2020