“ One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. ”
- Chateaubriand- Copy
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“ But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. ”
- Norton Juster- Copy
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“ A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noon-tide of our prosperity. He is known by his knock. ”
- Charles Lamb- Copy
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“ Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. ”
- Claude D. Pepper- Copy
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