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| A man must serve his time to every trade: Save Censure- Critics all are ready made |
| Lord Byron |
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| A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation. |
| Joseph Addison |
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| A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her |
| Helen Rowland |
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| Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving. |
| Dale Carnegie |
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| Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. |
| Dale Carnegie |
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| Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand |
| Bob Dylan |
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| Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown |
| Walter Scott |
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| Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense |
| Samuel Johnson |
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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 |
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| Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing |
| Aristotle |
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| Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. |
| Winston Churchill |
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| Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader |
| John Dryden |
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| Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. |
| Frank A. Clark |
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| Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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| Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find. |
| Peter Ustinov |
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