There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. (Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield)

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

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