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“If an offense come out of the truth, better it is that the offense come than that the truth be concealed.” Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
“Mother, you have my father much offended.” William Shakespeare, Hamlet
“No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“What’s the most offensive is not their lying—one can always forgive lying—lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth—what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying...” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than any one.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.” Mark Twain, Following the Equator
“We all like to forgive, and we all love best not those who offend us least, nor those who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.” Samuel Butler, The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (2)
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The Brothers Karamazov (1)
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