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

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

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Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. – Lord Chesterfield

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Knowledge
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Lord Chesterfield
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Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable. – Lord Chesterfield

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Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. – Benjamin Franklin

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Little enemies and little wounds must not be despised. – Proverb

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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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The best way to procure insults is to submit to them. – William Hazlitt

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