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— Jean de la Bruyere"An egotist will always speak of himself, either in praise or in censure, but a modest man ever shuns making himself the subject of his conversation."
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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.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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No author, I think, is deserving of much censure for vanity if, taking down one of his ten-year-old books, he exclaims: "Great heavens, did I write as well as that then?" for the implication always is that one does not write any longer so well and few are so envious as to censure the complacencies of an extinct volcano.
— Ford Madox Ford
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