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«Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.»
Author: Erica Jong
| About:
Men and Women,
Truth
| Keywords:
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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»
«What I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity.»
Author: Hermann Hesse
(Novelist, Poet)
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«The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
America and Americans,
Government,
Lies,
Men,
Truth
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«Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; men love in haste but they detest at leisure»
Author: Lord Byron
| About:
Hate
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«When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.»
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