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affronted

«Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you»
«Men are disgusting and, left to their own devices, they will affront the central tenets of human decency - and laugh uproariously at it»
«I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.»
«Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.»
«It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance»
«As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts»
«It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.»
«In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind -- too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. . . . East and West do not distrust each other because we are armed; we are armed because we distrust each other. And our differences are not about weapons but about liberty. . . . The most fundamental distinction of all between East and West (sic.) [is that] the totalitarian world produces backwardness because it does such violence to the spirit, thwarting the human impulse to create, to enjoy, to worship. The totalitarian world finds even symbols of love and of worship an affront.»
«For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.»
«A Man in Business must put up many Affronts, if he loves his own Quiet.»
Author: William Penn (Founder) | Keywords: affronted, affronts, put up