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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

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Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded. – Lord Chesterfield

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Truth
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Lord Chesterfield
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The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet. – Lord Chesterfield

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Risk
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To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life. – Lord Chesterfield

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Vanity
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[H]e loves her as the Devil loves Holy Water. – Jonathan Swift

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Insults

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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Insults

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens. – St. Bernard

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Insults

Backbite. To speak of a man as you find him when he cant find you. – Ambrose Bierce

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Insults

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