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• I'll break your face, have your ass mumbling to the jay, you going against me dawg you makin a mistake. I'll split your wig and leave you open like a mickeal jackson jacket with all them zippers.

  Curtis Jackson

  Mistake, Zippers, Splits

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• This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy, the dream of social order without government, is a wild fancy. The wildest dream that ever entered the heart of man is the dream that mankind can ever help itself through an appeal to law, or to come to any order that will not result in slavery wherein there is any excuse for government.

  Voltairine de Cleyre

  Dream, Heart, Men

  Eleventh of November 1887: Haymarket Memorial Speech by Voltairine de Cleyre, delivered in Chicago, contentdm.library.uvic.ca. 1901.

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• Revenge is never a straight line.

  Hattori Hanzo

  Lines, Straight Lines

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• On the 'Revenge' set, even if they're not showing my feet, I'll still wear my heels because it gets me in the feeling of Ashley Davenport.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Feet, Feelings, Stills

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, and like a forest it's easy to lose your way … to get lost … to forget where you came in.

  Hattori Hanzo

  Kill Bill, Lines, Way

  "Fictional character: Hattori Hanzo". "Kill Bill: Volume 1", 2003.

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• If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.

  Muhammad Ali

  Fighting, Worry, Bigs

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• There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Practice, Way

  Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Cop'ous Notes and Additions”, p.610

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• Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Understanding, Weakness

  Jonathan Swift (1741). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing, I. His Miscellanies in prose. II. His poetical writings. III. The travels of Capt. Lemuel Gulliver. IV. Papers relating to Ireland, and The Drapier's letters. V. The conduct of the allies, and The examiners. VI. The publick spirit of the Whiggs, &c. with Polite conversation. VII. Letters to and from Dr. Swift. VIII. Directions to servants, sermons, poems, &c”, p.125

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• Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Self, Community, Weakness

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sex, Powerful, Heart

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.107

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• We can more easily avenge an injury than requite a kindness; on this account, because there is less difficulty in getting the better of the wicked than in making one's self equal with the good.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Kindness, Self, Wicked

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• Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

  Joan Rivers

  Survival, Matter, Remember

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• It is through madness that we hate an enemy, and think of revenging ourselves; and it is through indolence that we are appeased, and do not revenge ourselves.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hate, Thinking, Enemy

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• The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share.

  Honore de Balzac

  Happiness, World, Share

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• There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humble, Doubt, World

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.42

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• Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Dirt, Eating, Empty

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.60, BookBaby

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• Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Numbers, Doe, Add

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.233, Faber & Faber

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• In one consort there sat cruel revenge and rancorous despite, disloyal treason and heart-burning hate.

  Edmund Spenser

  Hate, Heart, Burning

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• To revenge reasonable incredulity by refusing evidence, is a degree of insolence with which the world is not yet acquainted; and stubborn audacity is the last refuge of guilt.

  Samuel Johnson

  Guilt, Degrees, Audacity

  Samuel Johnson (2010). “Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.104, Canongate Books

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• Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Foresight, Seeking, Seeking Revenge

  Natalie Clifford Barney, Anna Livia (1992). “A perilous advantage: the best of Natalie Clifford Barney”, New Victoria Pub

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• Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

  William Shenstone

  Anger, Fighting, Fever

  William Shenstone, Samuel Johnson, Robert Dodsley (1807). “Essays on men and manners; with aphorisms, criticisms, impromptus, fragments, etc”, p.151

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• Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Justice, Kind

  Elizabeth Bowen (2006). “The Collected Stories of Elizabeth Bowen”, Anchor

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• Literature takes its revenge on reality by making it the slave of fiction.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Reality, Fiction, Literature

  Simone de Beauvoir (2016). “Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter”, p.34, HarperCollins

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• He who plots to hurt others often hurts himself.

  Aesop

  Hurt, Plot

  Albert Cullum, Aesop (1972). “Aesop in the afternoon”

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• Revenge and wrong bring forth their kind;
  The foul cubs like their parents are.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Parent, Kind, Cubs

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1847). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.180

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