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A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most forgiving of beings, upon the principle that if he come to an open rupture, he must defend himself; and this does not suit a man whose vocation it is to keep his hands in the pocket of another. Charles Caleb Colton
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Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest. Charles Caleb Colton
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There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it. Charles Caleb Colton
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Few things are more agreeable to self-love than revenge, and yet no cause so effectually restrains us from revenge as self-love. And this paradox naturally suggests another; that the strength of the community is not unfrequently built upon the weakness of those individuals that compose it. Charles Caleb Colton
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Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual. Charles Caleb Colton
revenge blood fever
Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable. Charles Caleb Colton
revenge enemy remember
I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. Charles Caleb Colton
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By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior. Charles Caleb Colton
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We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge China Mieville
praise good-things should
Good things should be praised. William Shakespeare
praise prove
Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove. William Shakespeare
praise increase
We increase whatever we praise. Charles Fillmore
praise creation increase
We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad. Charles Fillmore
praise standards higher
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard. Aristotle
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Thy praise or dispraise is to me alike; One doth not stroke me, nor the other strike. Ben Jonson
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Tis better that a man's own works, than that another man's words should praise him L. Estrange
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that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny) Jane Austen
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I'm a pretty upbeat guy. I tend to throw a lot of praise around. Joe Girardi
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We think of medieval England as being a place of unbelievable cruelty and darkness and superstition. We think of it as all being about fair maidens in castles, and witch-burning, and a belief that the world was flat. Yet all these things are wrong. Terry Jones
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To try for a perfect holiday is really an exercise in mental cruelty because there really is no such thing as perfect, so what you've got to do is make it your holiday. Georgia Witkin
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Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would. Thomas Hardy
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One of the ill effects of cruelty is that it makes the bystanders cruel Thomas Buxton
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Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalized medium of reason, that's all we have standing between us and the tyranny of mere will and the cruelty of unbridled, undisciplined feeling Felix Frankfurter
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If we look at multiple genes, the ethnic variations such as the ones we found are likely to be counterbalanced by other differences. Just because these genes are still evolving, doesn't necessarily mean they make you any smarter. We've evolved genes for selfishness, violence, cruelty ??- all of which are in place because they may make survival easier. Bruce Lahn
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I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war. Alan Furst
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If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education. Malala Yousafzai
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The maliciousness, the intentional, deliberate cruelty that we see is incredibly frightening. Jennifer Campbell