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Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress. - Abd-el-Kader (Kadir) We have all a propensity to grasp at forbidden fruit. - Ralph Cudworth Virtue hath some perverseness, for she will neither believe her good nor others ill. - Dr. John Donne The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much. - John Dryden To so perverse a sex all grace is vain. - John Dryden The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence. - George Eliot (pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans Cross) When once a man is determined to believe, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms him in his faith. - Junius (pseudonym, possibly of Sir Philip Francis) Perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart--one of the indivisible, primary faculties or sentiments which give direction to man. - Edgar Allan Poe Opposition embitters the enthusiast but never converts him. [Ger., Zang erbittert die Schwarmer immer, aber bekehrt sie nie.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Cabale und Liebe (III, 1) Perversity is the muse of modern literature. - Susan Sontag Perverseness is your whole defence. - Jonathan Swift For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before him. - Thucydides Best friends might loathe us, if what things perverse we know of our own selves they also knew. - Archbishop Richard Chenevix Trench
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