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offense Quotes

12 of the best book quotes about offense
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″‘Mama, she is poor and dirty...’ said Esperanza.” “But Mama interrupted. ‘When you scorn these people, you scorn Miguel, Hortensia, and Alfonso. And you embarrass me and yourself. As difficult as it is to accept, our lives are different now.‘”
Pam Muñoz Ryan
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Esperanza Rising
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Mama
Esperanza Ortega
Miguel
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perspective
offense
rudeness
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“Please don’t take offense if I don’t hit on you.”
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“Real humility lies in self-forgetfulness. Few want to hear this but it’s true, and it can be enormously helpful in life: if you are constantly being hurt, offended, or angered, you should honestly evaluate your inflamed ego.”
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“If you’re constantly being hurt, offended, or angered, you should honestly evaluate your inflamed ego.”
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“Isn’t being offended part of being a Christian?”
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“To take offense is to give offense.”
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“You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn’t it?”
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“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one.”
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“You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.”
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“There is no other way of guarding oneself from flatterers except letting men understand that to tell you the truth does not offend you.”
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“This it was that gave me a thought. No apology could blot out what I had said; it was needless to think of one, none could cover the offense; but where an apology was vain, a mere cry for help might bring Alan back to my side. I put my pride away from me. ‘Alan!’ I said; ‘if ye cannae help me, I must just die here.’ ”
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″‘My idea,’ said Nancy Blackett, ‘is an alliance against all enemies, especially Uncle Jim- Captain Flint, I mean. But we want the sort of alliance that will let us fight each other if we want to.’ ‘That’s not an alliance,’ said Titty, ‘that’s a treaty, a treaty of offense and defense.‘”

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