"The way to procure insults is to submit……" — William Hazlitt

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• You have to pay the price. You will find that everything in life exacts a price, and you will have… — Sam Nunn
• Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. — Seneca the Younger
• Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service, and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is… — Charles Caleb Colton
• Life is little more than a loan shark: It exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures… — Luigi Pirandello
• The prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precedes the actual physical one. — Tom Hanks
• Of all the items on the menu, soup is that which exacts the most delicate perfection and the strictest attention. — Auguste Escoffier
• Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts,… — Walter Bagehot
• Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes… — Jack Donovan
• Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration - which… — Peter Kropotkin
• Modern philosophy certainly exacts a surrender of all supernaturalism and fixed dogma and rigid institutionalism with which Christianity has been… — John Dewey
• Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can… — Tama J. Kieves
• Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child… — William Osler

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