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A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me. |
| in Insult Quotes by Frederick Douglass |
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But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.- Ben Harper
Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.
To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.
A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
This story is based on a gentleman who indeed did... used to come to my parents' house in 1971 from Bangladesh. He was at the University of Rhode Island. And I was four, four years old, at the time, and so I actually do not have any memories of this gentleman.
