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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Others, Forgive, Himself

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowski

Alone, Spiritual, Show

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Xun Zi

Good, Yourself, Evil

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
Xun Zi

Time, Fact, Later

I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.
Tony Kushner

Great, Evil, Feeling

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Richard Steele

Beauty, Nothing, Lack

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
Karel Capek

End, Might, Mankind

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
Curt Flood

Great, Person, American

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Romain Rolland

War, Find, Praise

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.
Jakaya Kikwete

Leadership, Through, Means

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