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Revenge Quote by Ian McEwan

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation.” quote by Ian McEwan — Download Open image

““Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves, Confucius said. Revenge unstitches a civilisation.””

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There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,…

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“The best way to take revenge of me is to make me see you successful.”

P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

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Revenge is a dish better severed cold.

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The best revenge in the world is success.

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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation…

Charlotte Bronte

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How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation? The means of security can only be regulated by the means and the danger of attack. They will, in fact, be ever determined by these rules, and by no others . .…

Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge.

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If someone steals my man, there's no better revenge than letting her keep him. A real man can't be stolen unless he wants to.

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The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Marcus Aurelius

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