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The judgment of each was warped and clouded, until each looked with a blood-shotten eye at the conduct of the other.
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gutenberg.orgGeorge F. Hoar: “The judgment of each was warped and clouded, until each looked with a blood-shotten eye at the conduct of the other.”
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Hoar describes the distorted perceptions that each man had of the other, illustrating the impact of their biases.
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