#detest

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices. ↗

— Renee Vivien

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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it. ↗

— George Washington

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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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I seldom have my stuff up unless I'm testing it. If I'm worrying about a painting, I put it up and see if I detest it quickly or slowly. Otherwise I have things by other artists. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

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Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure. ↗

— George Byron

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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

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We should fight to preserve a country where people such as Michael Moore get to miss the point as badly as he misses it. Michael Moore represents everything I detest in a human being. ↗

— Dennis Miller

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Throughout this evolution from left to right, Beard always detested war. Hence his writings were slanted to show that the military side of history was insignificant or a mere reflection of economic forces. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

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