"Success consecrates the most offensive crimes."
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"Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive ."
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"Life's an offensive proposition from beginning to end. Maybe those who can't tolerate offense ought to just go ahead and end it all, and maybe those who demand financial compensation for offense ought to have it ended for them."
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"Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive."
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"I live in hip-hop. I don't find it to be offensive."
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"Madonna reinforces everything absurd and offensive. Desperate womanhood. Madonna is closer to organized prostitution than anything else."
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"A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted."
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"Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it."
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"Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence."
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"What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others."
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"I don't want to hurt anybody or be offensive. But I don't want to not be me."
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