If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks. (Steve Pavlina)

If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.

Steve Pavlina

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