“It is salutary to train oneself to be no more affected by censure than by praise…”
Source: The Summing Up (1938), p. 223
“It is awkward to listen to oneself being praised, and I was always a shy man.”
Allan and the Holy Flower (1915), CHAPTER I, BROTHER JOHN
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