"I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians."

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"I have written on all sorts of subjects... yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians."

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"For them to perceive the advantage of defeating the enemy, they must also have their rewards."

Sun Tzu, Chinese Philosopher

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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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"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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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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"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"One never really knows who one's enemy is."

Jurgen Habermas, German Philosopher

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"Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race."

Henry Miller, American Author

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