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The most implacable Aversions have frequently no better Foundations.

From Zadig Or, The Book of Fate by Voltaire

This alternate succession of Appetites, Aversions, Hopes and Feares is no less in other living Creatures than in Man; and therefore Beasts also Deliberate.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas

Aversions to peculiar kinds of food are thus formed early in life by association of some maniacal hallucination with them.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Aversions and fears imply principles of preference, goods acknowledged; and it is the philosopher’s business to make these goods explicit.

From Character and Opinion in the United States by Santayana, George

What kinds of Speeches signifie the Appetites, Aversions, and Passions of mans mind; and of their use and abuse, I shall speak when I have spoken of the Passions.

From Leviathan by Hobbes, Thomas