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I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices. ↗

— Renee Vivien

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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. ↗

— George Washington

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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. ↗

— George Byron

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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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. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? ↗

— Alexander Pope

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ABNORMAL, adj. Not conforming to standards in matters of thought and conduct. To be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. A striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself, whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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