"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."

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"Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears."

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"To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?"

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"There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult."

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"Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh."

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"There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury."

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"Where there is injury let me sow pardon."

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"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may."

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"Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy."

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"The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead."

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