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He who puts up with insult invites injury.
-Yiddish Proverb
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Insults should be well avenged or well endured.
-Scottish Proverb
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Slander expires at a good woman's door.
-Danish proverb
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Even rabbits insult an dead lion.
-Proverb
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Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.
-Proverb
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Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
-Joseph Addison
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Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.
-Joseph Addison
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
-Marcus Aurelius
Meditations
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
-George Bancroft
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
-St. Bernard
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I am not going to spend any time whatsoever in attacking the Foreign Secretary. If we complain about the tune, there is no reason to attack the monkey when the organ grinder is present.
-Aneurin Bevan
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Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he can't find you.
-Ambrose Bierce
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
-Sam Brown
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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
-Lord Chesterfield, Letter to his son, October 9, 1746
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Men are apt to offend ('tis true) where they find most goodness to forgive.
-William Congreve
The Old Bachelor, 1693
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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
-Rene Descartes
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Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
-Diogenes
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It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking.
-Epictetus
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Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
-Benjamin Franklin
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I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances.
-Benjamin Franklin
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The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
-Sigmund Freud
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A generous confession disarms slander.
-Thomas Fuller
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No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute.
-Paul Gallico
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You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.
-Judge Hall
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The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.
-William Hazlitt
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Books about Insults
