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«I detest that man, who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks forth another»
«It always seemed strange to me that the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
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«How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?»
«Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.»
Author: Erica Jong
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Men and Women,
Truth
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compared, detested, detesting, detests, gossip, measurement, measurements, suspect
«The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it»
«What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
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«I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man»
«The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
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«I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.»
«I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition»
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