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The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
Walter Savage Landor
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Walter Savage Landor
Age: 89 †
Born: 1775
Born: January 30
Died: 1864
Died: September 17
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An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.
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Ridicule has followed the vestiges of truth, but never usurped her place.
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A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.
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When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.
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You should indeed have longer tarried By the roadside before you married.
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There is no eloquence which does not agitate the soul.
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