Hating
It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something.
 Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912). copy citation

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Author Samuel Butler
Source The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
Topic hate
Date 1912
Language English
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Context

“we only mean that we think no small beer of ourselves, that our God is a much greater God than any one else’s God, that he was our father’s God before us, and that it is all right, respectable and as it should be. Hating It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something. Hamlet, Don Quixote, Mr. Pickwick and others The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary that a man or woman should have lived.” source