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Elias Lyman Magoon
"While the censorious man is most severe in judging others, he is invariably the most ready to repel any animadversions made upon himself."
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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 357), 1895.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#Men Quotes
#Judging Quotes
#Criticism Quotes
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“Just because people say no to you, doesn't mean you should say no to yourself.”
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“No one was there. Some teammates, huh? I guess they didn't want to get their lip busted like the gentleman I busted. Sorry for that sir.”
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“In one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.”
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“So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.”
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“I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. Petals are bone marrow; pearls come from oysters. The dragon lives in the sky, ocean, marshes, and mountains; and the mountains are also its cranium. Its voice thunders and jingles like copper pans. It breathes fire and water; and sometimes the dragon is one, sometimes many.”
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“As a Marxist, let me add: if anyone tells you Lacan is difficult, this is class propaganda by the enemy.”
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“He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.”
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“Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border of neighboring municipalities and exchanging them for good with ignorant common people, bringing back the good coins and debasing them again. More and more mints were established. Debasement accelerated in hyper-fashion until a halt was called after the subsidiary coins became practically worthless, and children played with them in the street, much as recounted in Leo Tolstoy’s short story, Ivan the Fool.”
