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Letter "I" » insulted
«I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.»
«Perhaps the best function of parenthood is to teach the young creature to love with safety, so that it may be able to venture unafraid when later emotion comes; the thwarting of the instinct to love is the root of all sorrow and not sex only but divinity itself is insulted when it is repressed. To disapprove, to condemn /the human soul shrivels under barren righteousness.»
Author: Freya Stark
| Keywords:
barren, condemn, disapprove, disapproving, divinity, human soul, insulted, parenthood, righteousness, shrivel, shriveled, shrivels, shrivel up, thwarting, unafraid, venture
«The question that is so clearly in many potential parents' minds: 'Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?'»
Author: Joseph A. Schumpeter
(Economist, Minister)
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ambitions, impoverish, impoverishing, insulted, stunt, stunted, stunting
«Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.»
«He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases.»
Author: Pierre Corneille
(Dramatist, Poet)
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allows, deserves, increases, insolence, insulted, unpunished
«He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be»
«He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' - those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.»
«Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.»
«Is it popular to pay our debts, to do justice, to defend the injured and insulted country, to protect the aged and the infant, and give top liberty a land to live in? Then must taxation, as the means by which these things are done, be popular likewi»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
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Popularity
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debts, do justice, infant, insulted, taxation
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