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Revenge
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“... the only revenge worth having is success.”
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“Seeking revenge: what a lack of foresight.”
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“Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.”
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“... hurting other people is not excusable because you've been hurt yourself.”
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“How many are the pains of those who hunger for revenge! They gnaw away at themselves constantly, and they have killed themselves even before they kill their enemies ...”
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“... he asked no better revenge than a reply — and arrayed in his own mind a whole battalion of arguments, and a light armed troop of sneers.”
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“Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its afterflavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.”
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“Revenge was a very wild kind of justice ...”
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“... we contrive to make revenge itself look like religion. We call down thunder on many a head under pretence, that those on whom we invoke it are God's enemies, when perhaps we invoke it because they are ours.”
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“The whole human race loses by every act of personal vengeance.”
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“Revenge may not be a particularly higher consciousness-oriented activity. ”
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“Justice is a principle, vengeance a passion.”
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“In taking revenge upon our enemies, we are only even with them; in passing over their malice we are superior.”
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“Vengeance does not subtract any numbers from the equation of murder; it only adds them.”
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“... you know that the urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.”
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“Don't just get mad, try a little creative revenge ... Creative revenge ... allows you to get even — to extract some satisfactory justice — when you are wronged, but lets you do it with a sense of humor, not boiling malice.”
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“She was one of those women who used their charge accounts for retaliation. With each crisis in their deteriorating relationship, Grorley noted gloomily, Eunice's wardrobe had improved.”
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“An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.”
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“It would seem that in history it's never a tooth for a tooth, but a thousand, a hundred thousand for one.”
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“There are also moments, Imperial Highness, when the ultimate revenge is inaction.”
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“... one ingredient of revenge is always pride.”
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“Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.”
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“Payback, even when it's accident, brings joy.”
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“The best manner of avenging ourselves, is by not resembling him who has injured us.”
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“People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.”
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“My whole career has been an act of revenge.”
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“Success is the best revenge.”
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“To forget a wrong is the best revenge.”