Word: mote
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much greater glory in the hard-earned victory of one well-trained team over another, than the overwhelming triumph of a team which has gained perfection in secrecy and lulled her adversary into over-confidence? We are not free from fault ourselves, - let us try to remove the mote from our own eye, and then congratulate our New Haven rival in extracting the weighty beam from hers...
...that characterizes those who have dwelt within the sacred precincts of Novel Harbor. Nor has he any of that immature maturity, that attempted sophistication, which marks the sons of freedom's namesake. He has none of that tendency to regard the earth as one huge football, which is the mote that dims the eyes of the Jersey princes. But it avails little to say what a man is not. In an infinity we cannot use elimination; what is more to the point, when we are on a special subject, we must not generalize. As we have already said, the Harvard...
Thou art the great mote that oppresses...