Critics generally come to be critics by reason not of their… - Samuel Butler

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Critics generally come to be critics by reason not of their fitness for this but of their unfitness for anything else. Books should be tried by a judge and jury as though they were crimes, and counsel should be heard on both sides.

Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler (December 4, 1835 – June 18, 1902) was a British satirist, most famous for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh.

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We can see nothing face to face; our utmost seeing is but a fumbling of blind finger-ends in an overcrowded pocket.

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He who would propagate an opinion must begin by making sure of his ground and holding it firmly. There is as little use in trying to breed from weak opinion as from other weak stock.

Critics generally come to be critics by reason not of their fitness for this but of their unfitness for anything else. Books should be tried by a jud… - Samuel Butler

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