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Criticism/Judgement

"Would the boy you were be proud of the man you are?" Laurence J. Peter, educator and author (1919-1990)

"If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now." Fred Allen

"As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints." Charles Caleb Colton, author and clergyman (1780-1832)

I"t is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong." G.K. Chesterton, essayist and novelist (1874-1936)

“Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.” Byron J. Langenfeld

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