"I find the pain of a little..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson
I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
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“Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.”
“It is in the love of one's family only that heartfelt happiness is known.”
“He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end.”
More on Criticism
“Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes”
“As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.”
“And the whole Bush family, from Texas, should be boiled in poisoned oil.”