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John Churton Collins
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Quote 3526
It would be no exaggeration to say, that the sole encouragement now left to authors to produce good books is the satisfaction of their own conscience.Quote 3525
The two things which never seem to be considered are the interests of Literature and the interests of the public.Quote 3524
A man who posed as an authority on all the literatures of the world, and on the history of every nation in the world, would be very justly set down as an impostor.Quote 3523
In everything but in criticism it is necessary to specialize.Quote 3522
Books, on the other hand, of unusual and distinguished merit are despatched summarily in a few lines of equally undeserved depreciation.Quote 3521
Books displaying in their writers the grossest ignorance of the very rudiments of the subjects treated, and literally swarming with blunders and absurdities, all of which pass undetected and unnoticed, are made the subjects of elaborate panegyrics.Quote 3520
They will pose as authorities and pronounce ex cathedrĂ¢ on subjects literary, historical, and scientific of which they know nothing more than what they have contrived to pick up from the works which they are "reviewing."Quote 3519
They will sit in judgment on books written in languages of whose very alphabets they are ignorant.Quote 3518
Without standards, without touchstones, without principles, without knowledge, it appears to be regarded as the one calling for which no equipment and no training are needed.Quote 3517
Criticism is to Literature what legislation and government are to States.Quote 1565
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy, a wise man because he thinks what is easy is difficultMore quotes on the topics: failure stupidity wisdom mind errors superficiality deception
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