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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
"I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the
barber kept on shaving.
"I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the
barber kept on shaving.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Give no time to finding fault of criticism.
Give no time to finding fault of criticism.
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets,
historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets,
historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried
their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore
they turn critics.
Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part,
Nature in him was almost lost in art.
Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part,
Nature in him was almost lost in art.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
