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  • The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure.

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    Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.246
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The praise of the envious is far less creditable than their censure; they praise only that which they can surpass, but that which surpasses them they censure. - Charles Caleb Colton
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