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I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of injustice wounds me to the quick, though nothing but the report of it reach me. Therefore I have made many enemies and few friends; for the public know nothing of well-wishers, and keep a wary eye on those who would reform them. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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Mr. Cat and Mr. Dog were neighbors who fought like, well, cats and dogs. That is until Mr. Rat moved in. It's fascinating how easily two enemies ally at the introduction of a third. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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Now, now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies." (Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking him that he renounce Satan.) ↗

— Voltaire

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Never explain―your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

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Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy ↗

— Bob Marley

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If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. -Nelson Mandela, activist, South African president, Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1918) ↗

— Nelson Mandela

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The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends? ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life's work. ↗

— David Petersen

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In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbour hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility. The Christian must treat his enemy as a brother, and requite his hostility with love. His behaviour must be determined not by the way others treat him, but by the treatment he himself receives from Jesus; it has only one source, and that is the will of Jesus. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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