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“You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Lothair. Chap. xxxv.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 9cc37ea4e20618015faf42190e22aa6accc2c821630ae40adad78170c5f150b9
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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