Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Criticism
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The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.
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The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.
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