To
criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take
intellectual possession, to establish in fine a
relation with the criticized thing and to make it
one's own.
-- Henry James
1843-1916, American
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle,
was meant as a standard of judging well.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British
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Criticism is a study by which men grow important and
formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has
made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet
support his vanity by the name of a critic.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British
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I
would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the
worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent
as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad
thing; but starving it is still worse.
-- Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British
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