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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disap

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. – George Bancroft

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Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible. – George Bancroft

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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. – George Bancroft

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

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It is not he who gives abuse that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking. – Epictetus

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

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Slander expires at a good womans door. – Danish proverb

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