“One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.” — E. B. White, “A Report in January,” The New Yorker (1958-01-30)
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“It is one of the ironies of life that our intimates often provoke us more than our enemies.” — Edward W. Ziegler, Reader’s Digest (November 1944)
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“I don’t do direct revenge. But I’d like to think my enemies will wake up one morning in twenty or thirty years – not devastated, not ruined …just a little disappointed that their lives hadn’t turned out quite as well as they’d hoped.” — Don Paterson, The Fall at Home
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“All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There’s oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility.” — Doris Lessing, A Notorious Life
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“I wonder whether a bitter enemy would be jealous if he discovered that I hated someone else.” — Nassim Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes
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“Don’t fear too much the enemy you make by saying No, nor trust too much the friend you make by saying Yes.” — George Horace Lorimer, Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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“Never let yourself hate any person. It is the most devastating weapon of one’s enemies.” — Dr. Thomas Norval Hepburn, Letter to his daughter, Katharine Hepburn (1928-05-12)
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“The enemy, … is anybody who’s going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.” — Joseph Heller, Catch-22
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“The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.” — G.K. Chesterton, Illustrated London News (16 July 1910)
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“No opposition must be taken to heart. Our enemies often help us more than our friends.” — Amelia E. Barr, “Practical Hints to Young Authors,” How They Succeeded
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