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"Only cowards insult dying majesty."	Aesop
"A stiff apology is a second insult…. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."	Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means."	Clarence Seward Darrow
"A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me."	Frederick Douglass
"I was looking for an American symbol. A Coca-Cola bottle or a Mickey Mouse would have been ridiculous, doing anything with the American flag would have been insulting, and Cadillac hub caps were just too uncomfortable." (speaking about the dress she wore made of American Express Cards)"	Lizzy Gardiner
"He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure."	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."	Claude Adrien Helvetius
"There are two insults no human being will endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that the has never known trouble."	Sinclair Lewis
"If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved."	J. Russel Lynes
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."	Oscar Wilde
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."	Oscar Wilde
"She wore too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."	Oscar Wilde
"By giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it [modern journalism] keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."	Oscar Wilde
"They turned the country up on its side, and everything loose fell into California."	Frank Lloyd Wright
"I've had a wonderful evening - but this wasn't it."	Groucho Marx
"Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you, he really is an idiot."	Groucho Marx
"I've got a good mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it!"	Groucho Marx
"You're the reason our kids are so ugly."	Groucho Marx
"He's a male chauvinistic piglet."	Groucho Marx
"Gerald Ford was unknown throughout America. Now he's unknown throughout the world."	Groucho Marx
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