Words are both better and worse than thoughts, they express them, and add to them they give them power for good or evil they start them on an endless flight, for instruction and comfort and blessing, or for injury and sorrow and and ruin.
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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
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