"Emulation looks out for merits, that she may exalt herself by a victory; envy spies out blemishes that she may lower another by defeat."

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We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.

— Charles Caleb Colton