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Norton Juster
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A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
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Tacitus
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http://www.netpoets.com/classic/poems/062008.htm
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Jonathan Swift
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Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will affront,
What man alive can stand the brunt?
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WORDSWORTH: _Excursion,_ Bk. iii.
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Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged.
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William Hazlitt
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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Sinclair Lewis
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There are two insults no human being will endure that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble.
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Molire
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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
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Insults are effective only where emotion is present.
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The way to procure insults is to submit to them: a man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
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If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.
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"Insults are only effective where emotion is present." Spock
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"We're big enough to take a few insults." Scott
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"After all, we're big enough to take a FEW insults." Scott
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