If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, th — Alice Duer Miller
If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, th — Alice Duer Miller
If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, th — Alice Duer Miller
If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, th — Alice Duer Miller
If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, th — Alice Duer Miller
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If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

— Alice Duer Miller
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