There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt; and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

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

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About Philip Dormer Stanhope

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773) was a British statesman and man of letters.

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An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

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