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

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

Samuel Johnson

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