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Great affection is often the cause of violent animosity. The quarrels of men often arise from too great a familiarity. - Saskya Pandita


Football: A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity. - Vince Lombardi


A game that requires the constant conjuring of animosity. - Vince Lombardi


The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Can such bitterness enter into the heart of the devout? [Fr., Tant de fiel entre-t-il dans l'ame des devots?] - Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux


Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment, or improve the heart. - Walter Savage Landor


The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose. - Francis Thompson


Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. - Charlotte Bronte


But the greatest menace to our civilization today is the conflict between giant organized systems of self-righteousness, each system only too delighted to find that the other is wicked, each only too glad that the sins give it the pretext for still deeper hatred and animosity. - Herbert Butterfield