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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

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There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

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We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

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To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

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Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

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Valid criticism does you a favor.

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I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

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