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• If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Men, Needs, Done

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• When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Long, Details, Looks

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• I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Enemy, Remember

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.30

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• While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

  Douglas Horton

  Peace, Fear, Anger

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• Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.

  William Shakespeare

  Anger, Enemy, Hot

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 1, sc. 1, l. 140

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• Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

  Edward Gibbon

  Thank You, Wisdom, Gratitude

  Edward Gibbon (2016). “THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE (All 6 Volumes): From the Height of the Roman Empire, the Age of Trajan and the Antonines - to the Fall of Byzantium; Including a Review of the Crusades, and the State of Rome during the Middle Ages”, p.374, e-artnow

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• Women do most delight in revenge.

  Thomas Browne

  Delight

  Sir Thomas Browne (1872). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.251

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• Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

  Scott Adams

  Forgiveness, Inspire, Forgiving

  "Fictional character: David Rossi". "Criminal Minds". Season 7, Episode 2: "Proof", September 28, 2011.

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• The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Color, Wish, Brilliant

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• If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.

  William Shakespeare

  Venice, Shylock, Ifs

  William Shakespeare (1859). “Romeo and Juliet: And Other Plays”

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• Living well is the best revenge.

  George Herbert

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  George Herbert (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert [and The synagogue, by C. Harvey.]. With life, critical diss., and notes, by G. Gilfillan”, p.308

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• Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

  Austin O'Malley

  Dog, Anger, Biting

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• Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

  John Milton

  Victory, Ifs, Paradise Lost Book 2

  John Milton (1855). “The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon”, p.52

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• As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Patriotic, Past, Amnesty

  Gerald R. Ford's address to Veterans of Foreign Wars in Chicago, Illinois, August 19, 1974.

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gratitude, Pain, Mind

  'The Rambler' no. 87 (15 January 1751)

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• What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures, to make manhood more noble, womanhood more beautiful, and childhood more happy and bright.

  Samuel Gompers

  Beautiful, Book, Teaching

  The Shoe workers' Journal, Volume 16‎ (p. 4), 1915.

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• By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Debt, Pay, Mankind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.122

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• Happy ending are only a pause. There are three kinds of big endings: Revenge. Tragedy. Forgiveness. Revenge and Tragedy often happen together. Forgiveness redeems the past. Forgiveness unblocks the future.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Past, Tragedy, Together

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• Don't get mad, get even.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspiring, Mad, Murphys Law

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• Revenge is the easiest of emotions to understand and to manipulate.

  David Anthony Durham

  Emotion, Manipulate

  David Anthony Durham (2010). “Acacia”, p.72, Random House

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• Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, "My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Mother, Son, Democracy

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• I want to get inside your bitter mind and see what I can find.

  Pete Townshend

  Mind, Want, Bitter

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• Revenge feels right only to those directly involved. Justice feels right even to outsiders.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Justice, Outsiders, Feels Right

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• Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.

  Ivana Trump

  Beauty, Hair, Gorgeous

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• To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

  Alexander Pope

  Spiritual, Hate, Anger

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