Jorge Luis Borges writes in his essay "The art of insult" that the most splendid insult he knows was written by Jose Maria Vargas Vila (Colombian writer) against Jose Santos Chocano (Peruvian poet and diplomat):
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The gods did not consent that Santos Chocano disgraced the gallows dying in it. Here is alive, after having fatigued the infamy.
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In the same essay, Borges cites doctor Samuel Johnson:
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Sir, your wife under pretence of keeping a bawdy-house, is a receiver of stolen goods.
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