"Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it."
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"There are in life conjunctions of circumstances when the reproach that we are not Voltaires is least of all appropriate."
"Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach."
"Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back."
"There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame."