Despise Quote by Jerome K. Jerome

“If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do...”

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We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet…

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“There was no ground-floor — its ground-floor belonged to a house in the next court, and the front door opened direct upon a flight of stairs leading down to the cellar. Visitors on entering the house would suddenly shoot past the person who had answered the door to them and disappear down these stairs. Those of a nervous temperament used…

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“I can understand the ignorant masses loving to soak themselves in drink—oh, yes, it's very shocking that they should, of course—very shocking to us who live in cozy homes, with all the graces and pleasures of life around us, that the dwellers in damp cellars and windy attics should creep from their dens of misery into the warmth and glare…

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“And we sit there, by its margin, while the moon, who loves it too, stoops down to kiss it with a sister’s kiss, and…

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“The only feeling that a closer intimacy has created in him for his wife is that of indulgent contempt. As there is no equality between man and woman, so there can be no respect. She is a different being. He must either look up to her as superior to himself, or down upon her as inferior. When a man does…

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Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

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I despise a person of little mind - one might as well not have any.

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I despise computers in many ways. I think they’re hopelessly underevolved and overrated.

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I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

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