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  • When a man is regularly snubbed, bullied, blown up, walked into, and put down, there is usually some reaction in his favor, a kind of deostracism, which cannot bear to hear him always called the blunderer.

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

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