INSULT
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An injury is much sooner forgiven than an insult.—LORD CHESTERFIELD, Letters
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He who allows himself to he insulted deserves to be.—CORNEILLE, Heraclius
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Am I to set my life upon a throw
Because a bear is rude and surly? No—
A moral, sensible, and well-bred man
Will not affront me, and no other can.—COWPER, Conversation
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If he is insulted, he can be insulted; all his affair is not to insult.—EMERSON, Conduct of Life
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them.—HAZLITT, Characteristics
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To add insult to injury.—PHAEDRUS, Fables
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Insults are like bad coins; we cannot help their being offered to us, but we need not take them.—C. H. SPURGEON, Salt-Cellars
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