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Alive ridiculous and dead forgot?

insults, calumny

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

insults, calumny

Edgar Watson Howe

Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.

insults, calumny

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

insults, calumny

George Washington

To persevere in one’s duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

insults, calumny

Woe unto you when all men shall speak well of you.

insults, calumny

Young men soon give and soon forget affronts Old age is slow in both.

insults, calumny

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny there will be found reviewers to calumniate.

insults, calumny

He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.

insults, calumny

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.

insults, calumny

William Hazlitt

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.

insults, calumny

. . . ’twill turn your eyeballs black and blue.

insults, calumny