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• Your saying 'I do not understand you' is praise beyond my worth, and an insult you do not deserve.

  Khalil Gibran

  Self Esteem, Insults You, Praise

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• God, middle age is an unending insult.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Age, Menopause, Middle

  Dorothea Benton Frank (2004). “Sullivan's Island: A Lowcountry Tale”, p.43, Penguin

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• Complaining is an insult to God.

  Monica Mcgowan Johnson

  Complaining

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• What is Americanism? Every one has a different answer. Some people say it is never to submit to the dictation of a King. Others say Americanism is the pride of liberty and the defence of an insult to the flag with their gore. When some half-developed person tramples on that flag, we should be ready to pour out the blood of the nation, they say. But do we not sit in silence when that flag waves over living conditions which should be an insult to all patriotism?

  Anna Howard Shaw

  Kings, War, Pride

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• Too much of our political debate...has become a race to the bottom. An exchange of insults and slanders more appropriate to reality television than a legislature.

  Jeanne Shaheen

  Reality, Race, Political

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• The four eaglets are my four sons who cease not to persecute me even unto death. The youngest of them, whom I now embrace with so much affection, will sometime in the end insult me more grievously and more dangerously than any of the others.

  Henry II of France

  Children, Son, Four

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• Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

  Edouard Manet

  Pouring, Comeback, Hail

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• (I)f France's righteous bloviating against war makes them your Dashboard Saint of International Integrity, it's either because you are sand-poundingly ignorant of how the world works or it's because you think France's self-interest is more important than America's. If the former applies to you, read a book. If it's the latter, maybe you should move there along with Alec Baldwin, Robert Altman, and the rest of the crowd who promised to leave a long time ago. But whatever you do, don't call France's position principled, because that just insults us both.

  Jonah Goldberg

  War, Integrity, Moving

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• Your flattery is as full of contempt as your insults were.

  Mason Cooley

  Flattery, Contempt

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• How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Law, Progress

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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• Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Buddhist, Philosopher

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.270

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• Modern literature seduces with insults, riddles, and inside stories.

  Mason Cooley

  Stories, Literature, Modern

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• No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Women, Religion, Degradation

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1919). “The Tunnel”

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• If a man, notoriously and designedly, insults and affronts you, knock him down; but if he only injures you, your best revenge is to be extremely civil to him in your outward behaviour, though at the same time you counterwork him, and return him the compliment, perhaps with interest.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Revenge, Men, Return

  Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield (1855). “The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author”, p.485

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• Fear invites danger; concealed cowards insult known ones.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Fear, Coward, Danger

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• A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.

  John Grant

  Corruption, Fraud, Forgery

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• The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

  Edmund Wilson

  Fall, Hands, Shots

  "Patriotic gore" by Edmund Wilson, (p. 115), 1962.

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• Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Thinking, Race

  Hilaire Belloc (1922). “The Jews”

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• Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.

  Rex Stout

  Cooking, Kitchen, Female

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• Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing.

  Robert Breault

  Mean, People, Laughing

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• We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Life, Land, Feet

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• Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; don't react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Acceptance, Insults You

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• Don't waste your time on jealousy; sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long, and in the end, it's only with yourself. Remember compliments you receive, forget the insults; if you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

  Mary Schmich

  Race, Compliments You, Long

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

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• The deepest insult which can be shown to a human being is to associate it solely with material functions, with no cognizance and no consideration of its intellectual and spiritual power.

  Mary C. Ames

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Consideration

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• You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith.

  Pope Francis

  Fun, Provoking

  "After Paris attacks, Pope speaks out against insulting religions" by Philip Pullella, www.reuters.com. January 15, 2015.

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