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If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business.

We like so much to hear people talk of us and of our motives, that we are charmed even when they abuse us.

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

I do not waste my time in answering abuse; I thrive under it like a field that benefits from manure.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

One may be continually abusive without saying any thing just; but one cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

How is it possible to look for God and sing his praises while insulting and degrading his creatures? If, as I had thought, all lambs are the Agnus Dei, then to deprive them of light and the field and their joyous frisking and the sky is the worst kind of blasphemy.