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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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George F. Hoar
Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Hoar describes the distorted perceptions that each man had of the other, illustrating the impact of their biases.

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