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A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.
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Louis Nizer

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By indignities men come to dignities.
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Francis Bacon

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Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
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Diogenes of Sinope

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Even rabbits insult an dead lion.
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Proverb

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He who puts up with insult invites injury.
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Jewish Proverb

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Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
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Jean Jacques Rousseau

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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
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Seneca

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Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised.
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Proverb

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Never insult an alligator until you've crossed the river.
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Cordell Hull

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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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Sam Brown

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Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
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Junius

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The best way to procure insults is to submit to them.
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William Hazlitt

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Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.
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Rene Descartes

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Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble.
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Benjamin Franklin

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You will find that silence or very gentle words are the most exquisite revenge for insult.
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Judge Hall

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Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
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Joseph Addison

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