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"Never insult anyone by accident."
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"I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that."
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"No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult."
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"I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult."
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"He who does not take insults seriously, is on the path to wisdom."
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"We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing."
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"[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples."
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"I'd love to ask how old you are, but unfortunately I know you can't count that high."
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"We should never stand upon ceremony with sincerity. We should never cheat and insult and banish one another by our meanness, if there were present the kernel of worth and friendliness. We should not meet thus in haste."
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"He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present."
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"Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack."
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"Imitation is the sincerest form of insult."
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"There are two insults which no human being will endure: The assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble."
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"It's hilarious a lot of times. You have a conversation with someone, and he's like, 'You speak so well!' I'm like, 'What do you mean? Do you understand that's an insult?"
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"There's a difference between using the word to insult somebody and using it to start a journalistic conversation."
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"No one can insult you without your permission."
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"When people direct insults at me, I can take it."
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"Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency."
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"A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice."
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