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censure
«It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Persecution
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censure, eminent, fiery, illustrious, persecution
«Mankind censure injustice, fearing that they may be the victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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censure, committing, fearing, shrink, shrink from, The Victims
«It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind»
«I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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censure, frigid, miscarriage, miscarriages, protract, protracted, protracting, protracts, sunk
«I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.»
«It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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Praise
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censure, salutary