Quote by Joseph Addison
Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in

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

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Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view. – Joseph Addison

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A mans first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, and his next to escape the censures of the world. – Joseph Addison

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With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts. – Joseph Addison

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Other Quotes from
Insults
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Even rabbits insult an dead lion. – Proverb

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Insults

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. – Sam Brown

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Insults should be well avenged or well endured. – Scottish Proverb

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O, she is the antidote to desire. – William Congreve, Love for Love, 1695

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