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spite Quotes

Eight of the best book quotes about spite
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“Can heav’nly minds such high resentment show, Or exercise their spite in human woe?”
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“I am a sick man.... I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. ”
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“Anger has no old age but only death; The dead alone can feel no touch of spite.”
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“Her abode is concealed in the lowest recesses of a cave, wanting sun, and not pervious to any wind, dismal and filled with benumbing cold; and which is ever without fire, and ever abounding with darkness.”
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“She both torments and is tormented at the same moment, and is ever her own punishment.”
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“Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies.”
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“When she was angry her little eyes flashed blue. When she hated anybody, they shone yellow and green. What they looked like when she loved anybody, I do not know; for I never heard of her loving anybody but herself, and I do not think she could have managed that if she had not somehow got used to herself.”
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“Sir, if I were you, so help me God, I would say, ‘turn back ye proud peasants! I have reached the edge of the wood now; the rooster shall stay here. In spite of you I will eat him in faith, and not be long about it.’ ”
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