It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise…
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p. 223William Somerset Maugham
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Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.
James Boswell
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to shew how much he can spare.
Samuel Johnson
Cold approbation gave the ling'ring bays,
For those who durst not censure, scarce could praise.Samuel Johnson
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
Jean Cocteau
I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the contents of the train, which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was — the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one.
Peter Cook
Maugham, William Somerset
Mauldin, Bill
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