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Insult Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.
- A short letter to a distant friend is, in my opinion, an insult like that of a slight bow or cursory salutation - a proof…
- By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
- Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than…
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