"No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me."

Enemy, Learning

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"No, I'm no enemy to learning; it hurts not me."

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"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

George Orwell, British Author

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"Friends come and go but enemies accumulate."

Arthur Bloch, American Author

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"When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."

Ron Wood, British Musician

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"The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander."

Ramman Kenoun, French Philosopher

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"It's hard to be done a favor by a man you hate. It's hard to hate him so much afterwards. Losing an enemy can be worse than losing a friend, if you've had him for long enough."

Joe Abercrombie, English Novelist

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"Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker."

Frank Herbert, American Writer

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"Let the poor man count as his enemy, and his worst enemy, every invader of the right of free discussion."

Gerrit Smith, American Politician

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"One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good."

Edmund Burke, Irish Statesman

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"A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one."

Will

"Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak."

Music

"If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me."

Love

"In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me."

Body

"Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study."

Despair

"There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire."

Beauty

"Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved."

Will

"He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views."

Confidence

"She likes herself, yet others hates, For that which in herself she prizes; And while she laughs at them, forgets She is the thing that she despises."

Criticism

"Grief walks upon the heels of pleasure; married in haste, we repent at leisure."

Grief