"Insults are the business of the court."
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"Be prudent, and if you hear, * * * some insult or some threat, * * * have the appearance of not hearing it."
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"My best friend recently told me that I was the most passionate person she's ever known. I don't know if that was a compliment or an insult, honestly."
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"It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it."
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"Life without music would be an intolerable insult."
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"To say accounting for derivatives is Americais a sewer is an insult to sewage."
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"Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"
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"Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged."
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"There but for the grace of God, goes God."
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"I assure you, you will never survive on your wits alone."
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"Imitation is always insult--not flattery."
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"When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation."
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"The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them."
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"If there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult . . . I apologize."
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"I wouldn't be surprised if one day Carl's halo slipped and choked him."
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"It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them."
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"Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions."
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"I regarded finding I had a form of Alzheimer's as an insult, and I decided to do my best to marshal any kind of forces that I could against this wretched disease. I have posterior cortical atrophy or PCA. They say, rather ingenuously, that if you have Alzheimer's it's the best form of Alzheimer's to have."
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"To refuse to accept the call of your best life is to insult the force that created you."
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"Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?"
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