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No two persons are ever more confidential and cordial than when they are censuring a third.

From Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by Richardson, John Purver

If you criticise a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and instead of the poet, are censuring your own caricature of him.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

They are censuring the President again, whose popularity ebbs and flows.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp