Insulting quotes
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"Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate."
"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."
"The English are, I think the most obtuse and barbarous people in the world"
"The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought."
"They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody."
"It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners."
"There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another."
"The English are the people of consummate cant."
"It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing."
"I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority."
