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

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I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics. – Johnny Mercer, on a British musical

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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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A generous confession disarms slander. – Thomas Fuller

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. – George Bernard Shaw

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