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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Lord Chesterf

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. – Lord Chesterfield

Other quotes by Lord Chesterfield

Let your enemies be disarmed by the gentleness of your manner, but at the same time let them feel, the steadiness of your resentment. – Lord Chesterfield

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Enemy, Enemies
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Lord Chesterfield
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it ones self to be acquainted with it. – Lord Chesterfield

Category:
Travel
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Lord Chesterfield
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No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute. – Paul Gallico

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

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Insults

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde

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Insults

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead. – Rose Macaulay

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