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revenge men hands
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
revenge men insult
Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on these occasions, are good haters, and lay out their revenge at compound interest.
revenge humble doubt
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.
revenge self community
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.
revenge knaves able
Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.
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.
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.
revenge pay debt
By paying our other debts, we are equal with all mankind; but in refusing to pay a debt of revenge, we are superior.
revenge should-have creative
We should have just killed him, that's a lesson, don't get creative with revenge China Mieville
writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
spite
Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. Don Marquis
spiteful wrong
If a daily, 'How you doing, Terrell?' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet. Brad Childress
spiteful wrong
If a daily, 'How you doing' or a 'What's up' is antagonistic or spiteful then I must be on the wrong planet.
spite
Suppose our failures occur, not in spite of what we are doing, but precisely because of it. Dallas Willard
spite nature-love
I love nature, in spite of what it did to me. Bette Midler
spiteful
Russ Potts is an angry, bitter, spiteful man. Tim Murtaugh
spite
Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it. Paul Mooney
spite tough warm wind
The wind made it very tough to play in spite of the warm day. Lee Matthews
spite stormy
In spite of all their friends could say, / On a winter's morn, on a stormy day, / In a sieve they went to sea! Edward Lear