“People hate who makes you feel one's inferiority.”
“Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.”
“People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.”
“You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.”
“You must labour to acquire that great and uncommon talent of hating with good breeding, and loving with prudence; to make no quarrel irreconcilable by silly and unnecessary indications of anger; and no friendship dangerous, in care it breaks, by a wanton, indiscreet, and unreserved confidence.”
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