"... when something is detestable, and yet inevitable,……" — Henry de Montherlant

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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
• Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll… — Charles Bukowski
• It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes… — Stephen Charnock
• When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as… — Confucius
• Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of… — William Ralph Inge
• Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity. — Charles Darwin
• The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less… — William E. Gladstone
• Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal… — Jonathan Rosenbaum
• In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness… — Joseph Conrad
• You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and… — Don King
• It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning… — Alexis de Tocqueville
• How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so… — Gabrielle Hamilton

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