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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Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt. – Joseph Addison

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It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole age. – Joseph Addison

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. – Oscar Wilde

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

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The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization. – Sigmund Freud

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

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