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“Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, if they could; they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics.”
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- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- a70c1a17d8147ccd51893c7059ce5a02f3024e5dc9dd4c7ae393c8e6f30d028b
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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