If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own. - Henry Home, Lord Kames

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I have had nothing to do in any way, shape or form with the mailing of these anthrax letters, and it is extremely wrong for anyone to contend or suggest that I have.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

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Even dress is apt to inflame a man's opinion of himself.

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The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

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