Hatred is the vice of narrow souls they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies. (Honoré de Balzac)

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

Honoré de Balzac

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