Quotes with detests

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• Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

  Desiderius Erasmus
  Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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• Everyone should learn to do one thing supremely well because he likes it, and one thing supremely well because he detests it.

  Brigham Young
  American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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• It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

  Luigi Pirandello
  Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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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
  First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• unspeakable
• shoulders
• supremely
• character
• swearing
• despises

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