Quotes with recoil

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• Curses always recoil on the head of him who imprecates them. If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

  ― Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  British author (1859 - 1930)
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