“ The extremes of vice and virtue are alike detestable; absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullnesses of it and the pomposities of it. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable. ”
- Confucius- Copy
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“ Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. ”
- Charles Bukowski- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable. ”
- Sir Richard Steele- Copy
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“ Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me. ”
- H. Rider Haggard- Copy
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“ Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as concerned about the heath of their fame as men are, and speaking generally, will pass a tombstone or a signpost without feeling an irresistible desire to cut their names on it. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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