"The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure."

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There are but three ways for a man to revenge himself of the censure of the world,--to despise it, to return the like, or to endeavor to live so as to avoid it; the first of these is usually pretended, the last is almost impossible, the universal practice is for the second.

— Jonathan Swift