The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.

William Hazlitt
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  2. Sir, I admit your general rule, That every poet is a fool, But you yourself may serve to show it, That every fool is not a poet. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  3. Hubert Humphrey is a treacherous, gutless old ward-heeler who should be put in a goddamn bottle and sent out with the Japanese current. - Hunter S. Thompson

  4. It is a tremendous strength to be able to digest an insult. - Dada Bhagwan

  5. Money-makers are tiresome company, as they have no standard but cash value. - Plato

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