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All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.

Samuel Johnson
Men, Self, Order
Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for 25 Apr. 1778)
All censure of a man's self is oblique praise. It is in order to show how much he can spare.