Detestable Quotes
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Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
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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.
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The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.
