Renouveler les choses connues, vulgariser les choses neuves: un bon programme pour un critique. - Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve

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Puisqu'il faut avoir des ennemis, tâchons d'en avoir qui nous fassent honneur.

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Let us beware of irony when making judgements. Of all the dispositions of the mind, irony is the least intelligent.

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...I can savor a work, but it is difficult for me to judge it independently from the author, and I would gladly say, as is the tree, so is the fruit.

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