This is because a censorious tongue may prove worse than any fault condemned in others.

因为批评性的舌头可能比在别人身上找到的错误更加糟糕。

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John Dryden considered "the great as entitled to encomiastic homage, " wrote a censorious Samuel Johnson.

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If Mr Blair thinks that people are being too censorious about his new chum, a few minutes spent on Mr Desmond's main website might change his mind.

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In the process the Tory party ended up sounding censorious about single parents, thereby getting on the wrong side of a demographic trend that has helped to keep it out of power ever since.

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