Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In t… - Jean de La Bruyère

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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.