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... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance. Charles Dickens
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Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows. Charles Caleb Colton
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Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
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Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it.
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He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company under the least repulsive circumstances, one would have wished him to be out of temper that he might only scowl.
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The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.
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Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly.
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He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.
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He had a certain air of being a handsome man-which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man-which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.
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Criticism discloses that which it would fain conceal, but conceals that which it professes to disclose; it is therefore, read by the discerning, not to discover the merits of an author, but the motives of his critic.
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I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism. David Walliams
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When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that. Carlos Ghosn
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What he's saying may be good press criticism but I'm not sure it's good law. Tom Rosenstiel
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Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is something to be built. Carl Jung
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Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together! Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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If there's criticism of my work that's legitimate. I'm ready to hear of it. Edward Klein
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All politicians are vulnerable in an environment of anger. What you've got is this perfect storm: The president is low in the polls, the governor is low in the polls and neither of them is on the ticket. Given the criticism and the anger, somebody is going to be on the receiving end of those emotions.
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Also I haven't really heard that much criticism about my voice. Sitting here at the end of 30 years, I must be doing something right. David Coverdale
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We cannot reward incompetence and deceit. We need to demand more than what Hillary Clinton offers for America. Chris Christie
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None are deceived but they that confide. Benjamin Franklin
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There were weekends and evening hours. A lot of time went in to defend what proved to be a deceitful action.
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It's a great place to be gay online because no one knows who you are, where you live. They only know what you tell them. Online, you can lie. It's very easy to make up a whole different person online because you have a fake name and you can be really secretive and deceitful about it.
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Deceit is in the heart of them that imagine evil: but to the counsellors of peace is joy.
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Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
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Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. Aristophanes
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God is not averse to deceit in a holy cause. Aeschylus
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I have always had a lot more trouble with my truths than with my deceits Mercedes McCambridge