The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness. - William Hazlitt

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William Hazlitt: "The pleasure of hating, like a poisonous mineral, eats into the heart of religion, and turns it to ranking spleen and bigotry; it makes patriotism an excuse for carrying fire, pestilence, and famine into other lands: it leaves to virtue nothing but the spirit of censoriousness."

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Bigotry	Carrying	Censoriousness	Eats
Excuse	Famine	Fire	Hating
Heart	Into	Lands	Leaves
Makes	Mineral	Nothing	Other
Patriotism	Pestilence	Pleasure	Poisonous
Ranking	Religion	Spirit	Spleen
Turns	Virtue

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