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    A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it.

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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

by Harriet Beecher Stowe Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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My uncle never met an animal he didn't want to kill.
(on Book TV).

My uncle never met an animal he didn't want to kill.
(on Book TV).

by Hilary Hemingway Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to read more

If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to know it's shit.

by Seth Eisenberg Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightstick
like a posthole digger.
(in reference to the death by ruptured kidney
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The Cincinnati policeman was using his nightstick
like a posthole digger.
(in reference to the death by ruptured kidney
and other factors after the clubbing of Nathaniel Jones
by 2 Cincinnati policemen).

by Bill Hall Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the read more

The best security against revolution is in constant correction of abuses and the introduction of needed improvements. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

by Richard Whately Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

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

by Seneca Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, read more

I never yet heard man or woman much abused that I was not inclined to think the better of them, and to transfer the suspicion or dislike to the one who found pleasure in pointing out the defects of another.

by Jane Porter Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we read more

There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.

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70 pheasants shot in Rolling Rock
by Dick Cheney who's not in Iraq.

70 pheasants shot in Rolling Rock
by Dick Cheney who's not in Iraq.

by O Anna Niemus Found in: Abuse Quotes,
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