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 invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.173, Ravenio Books
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