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"When anyone is modest, not after praise, but after censure, then he is really so." »Richter
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"The censure of those who are opposed to us, is the highest commendation that can be given us." »Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." »Leonardo DaVinci
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"censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent." »Jonathan Swift
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"Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss." »Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism
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"Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice take each man's censure but reserve thy judgement." »William Shakespeare
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"It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise." »W. Somerset Maugham
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"Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it." »Plato
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"Of what avail is the praise or censure of the vulgar, who make a useless noise like a senseless crow in a forest?" »Mahabharata
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"Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the insidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood." »Tyron Edwards
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"It is our follies that make our lives uncomfortable. Our errors of opinion, our cowardly fear of the world?s worthless censure, and our eagerness after unnecessary gold have hampered the way of virtue, and made it far more difficult than, in itself, it is." »Feltham
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"Heed not the flatterer?s fulsome talk, He from thee hopes some trifle to obtain; Thou wilt, shouldst thou his wishes baulk, Ten hundred times as much of censure gain." »Sa?di
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"Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man." »William Shakespeare
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"It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph." »Joseph Addison
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"Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." »Robert F. Kennedy
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