"Censure is the tax a man pays to……" — Jonathan Swift
"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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271 Quotes by Jonathan Swift
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A carpenter is known by his chips.
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The bulk of mankind is as well equipped for flying as thinking.
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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The best Maxim I know in this life is, to drink your Coffee when you can, and when you cannot,…
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A fig for partridges and quails, ye dainties I know nothing of ye; But on the highest mount in Wales…
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I love white Portugal wine better than claret, champagne, or burgundy. I have a sad vulgar appetite.
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The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his…
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I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its…
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It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.
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Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out…
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Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their…
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More Censure Quotes
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although…
— Giacomo Casanova
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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding…
— Adam Clarke
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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If men of eminence are exposed to censure on one hand, they are as much liable to flattery on the…
— Joseph Addison
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Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.
— Alexander Pope
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Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to…
— Luis Walter Alvarez
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He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of…
— William Gilmore Simms
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Careless of censure, nor too fond of fame, Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame, Averse alike to…
— Alexander Pope
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of…
— Tryon Edwards
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Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last…
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Let such teach others who themselves excel, And censure freely who have written well.
— Alexander Pope
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