Injuries accompanied with insults are never forgiven: all men, on thes…

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 (1836). Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think, p.215
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