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Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!Michael Bassey Johnson
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Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss. Escaped from the frightful torments of persecution and of calumny, I felt that I was answering all in rising abovJacques Charles
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Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.Michael Bassey Johnson
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No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools.Michael Bassey Johnson
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If a negative viewer looks at you with an ugly fiendish eye, find a way and pluck off his eyes, or better still, protect your good image.Michael Bassey Johnson
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Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.Michael Bassey Johnson
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Majority of people prefer a good name to a bad name, but to me, anyone can call me anything, as long as it is not written on my face.Michael Bassey Johnson
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.. . 'twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.Brendan Behan
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Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten.Aesop
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It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.Norman Douglas
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Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.Margot Asquith
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Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.Thomas Carlyle
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Be thou as chaste as ice as pure as snow thou shalt not escape calumny.William Shakespeare
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A fly Sir may sting a stately horse and make him wince but one is but an insect and the other a horse still.Samuel Johnson
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Calumny is only the noise of madmen.Diogenes
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To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.George Washington
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Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you.Bible
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Young men soon give and soon forget affronts Old age is slow in both.Joseph Addison
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As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.Thomas Fuller
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It takes your enemy and your friend working together to hurt you to the heart the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.Mark Twain
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Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said.William Hazlitt
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.Seneca
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Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.Edgar Watson Howe
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One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.Pauline Kael
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Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?Alexander Pope