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Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.


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TRISTE I hate him. Except for all the places where I love him half to death.
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DAVID GOYER I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!
TOM LEHRER You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but ...
JOSEPH CONRAD I detest that man who hides one thing in the depths of his heart, and speaks for another.
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NATASHA VANDERLINDEN For while the treason I detest, The traitor still I love.
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PELE Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
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“I be...
RACHAEL WADE Uther: “I wish you were a foolish woman I could despise, damn you”
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AMY HARMON I hate love. Lets now interchange the position of hate and love. I love hate. Which one do have more...
EPHDAN Captain William Thomas Turner, hero; villain, Schwieger. As I started doing research into him and in...
ERIK LARSON I have so much hate that it has turned into love.
MARGARET CHO I love little Peter Pan collars and little puff sleeves.
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SHANE HARPER I begin to grow heartily tired of the etiquette and nonsense so fashionable in this city.
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MARIO VARGAS LLOSA I do not understand the difference between a man and a woman, and believing only in the eternal valu...
SARAH PRAGER Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and s...
C.S. LEWIS I've met Willie John a few times. He was born within a mile of where I was born, and I know he's an ...
TONY MCCOY How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
ALEXANDER POPE How shall I lose the sin yet keep the sense, And love th' offender, yet detest the offence?
ALEXANDER POPE next to of course god america i / love you land of the pilgrims and so forth oh
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MICHELLE YEOH As much as I love boxing, I hate it. And as much as I hate it, I love it.
BUDD SCHULBERG I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will...
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KAITLYN DEVER I never imagined a love so pure, nor a hate that could be so cruel.
DONNA LYNN HOPE I loathe and detest heavy metal.
BUTCH TRUCKS Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.
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ALBER ELBAZ I hate love, I don't love to hate.
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BIBLE I love to love and to be loved, yet hate to hate and to be hated.
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NELSON MANDELA I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a ...
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BJORN BORG I will hate the man you choose because he isn't me, and love him if he makes you smile.
ROBERT JORDAN I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
STEPHEN LEACOCK I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
STEPHEN LEACOCK I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so
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JOHN GREEN Jonathan and I are highly aligned.
SCOTT MCNEALY I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.
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THOMAS CARLYLE I believe that all men and women will be saved.
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JONATHAN SWIFT All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this ye...
JONATHAN SWIFT In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends
JONATHAN SWIFT It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.
JONATHAN SWIFT Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us th...
JONATHAN SWIFT Gulliver describes a royal personage inspiring awe among the tiny Lilliputians because he was taller...
JONATHAN SWIFT The greatest inventions were produced in the times of ignorance, as the use of the compass, gunpowde...
JONATHAN SWIFT