"There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it."

Irony, Insult, Humor, Self-Awareness

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"There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it."

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