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| The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid ABUSE of terms. | James F. Cooper | 1789-1851, American Novelist |
| Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having ABUSEd it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence. | Jean Baudrillard | French Postmodern Philosopher, Writer |
| Th ABUSE of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
| We ABUSE land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. | Aldo Leopold | |
| Sexism is the foundation on which all tyranny is built. Every social form of hierarchy and ABUSE is modeled on male-over-female domination. | Andrea Dworkin | 1946-, American Feminist Critic |
| There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its ABUSEs. | Andrew Jackson | 1767-1845, Seventh President of the USA |
| Never join with your friend when he ABUSEs his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Don't ABUSE your friends and expect them to consider it criticism. | Edgar Watson Howe | 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author |
| It is not he who gives ABUSE that affronts, but the view that we take of it as insulting; so that when one provokes you it is your own opinion which is provoking. | Epictetus | 50-120, Stoic Philosopher |
| Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of ABUSE applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. | Ernest Hemingway | 1898-1961, American Writer |
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| Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. ABUSEd patience turns to fury. | Francis Quarles | 1592-1644, British Poet |
| The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. | H. L. Mencken | 1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist |
| He was inordinately proud of England and he ABUSEd her incessantly. | H.G. Wells | 1866-1946, British-born American Author |
| Whipping and ABUSE are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline. | Harriet Beecher Stowe | 1811-1896, American Novelist, Antislavery Campaigner |
| Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which ABUSEs the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. | Herbert Marcuse | 1898-1979, German Political Philosopher |
| People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned. | James Baldwin | 1924-1987, American Author |
| Liberty may be endangered by the ABUSE of liberty, but also by the ABUSE of power. | James Madison | 1751-1836, American Statesman, President |
| Through all the employments of life each neighbour ABUSEs his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another. | John Gay | 1688-1732, British Playwright, Poet |
| The real sin against life is to ABUSE and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. | Katherine Anne Porter | 1890-1980, American short-story Writer, Novelist |
| Power is what men seek and any group that gets it will ABUSE it. | Lincoln Steffens | 1866-1936, American Journalist |
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| When you have no basis for an argument, ABUSE the plaintiff. | Marcus T. Cicero | c. 106-43 BC, Great Roman Orator, Politician |
| No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer ABUSE as a substitute. | Paul Gallico | |
| A jack of both sides, is before long, trusted by nobody, and ABUSEd by both parties. | Proverb | |
| For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is ABUSE -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another! | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist |
| Pity those who nature ABUSEs; never those who ABUSE nature. | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 1751-1816, Anglo-Irish Dramatist |
| Let us not forget who we are. Drug ABUSE is a repudiation of everything America is. | Ronald Reagan | 1911-, Fortieth President of the USA, Actor |
| A fly may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| And then, Sir, there is this consideration, that if the ABUSE be enormous, nature will rise up, and claiming her original rights, overturn a corrupt political system. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| No government power can be ABUSEd long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government. | Samuel Johnson | 1709-1784, British Author |
| It's not a slam at you when people are rude -- it's a slam at the people they've met before. | Source Unknown | |
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| All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain nor treated with violence, nor ABUSEd, nor tormented, nor driven away. This is the pure unchangeable law. | Sutrakritanga | |
| Incredibly, many people continue their old life-style, their habits even if they feel miserable, lonely, bored, inadequate, or ABUSEd. Why? Of course... because habit is an easy place to hide. | Tom Rusk | |
| Every ABUSE ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the ABUSE itself. | Voltaire | 1694-1778, French Historian, Writer |
| If a man character is to be ABUSEd there's nobody like a relative to do the business. | William M. Thackeray | 1811-1863, Indian-born British Novelist |
| She's gone. I am ABUSEd, and my relief must be to loathe her. | William Shakespeare | 1564-1616, British Poet, Playwright, Actor |
