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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Critics and Criticism
Anatole France

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The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.
Patriotism
J. William Fulbright

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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Critics and Criticism
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
Critics and Criticism
Oliver Goldsmith

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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
Critics and Criticism
Alfred Whitney Griswold

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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Critics and Criticism
Dag Hammarskjold

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Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize.
Encouragement
Elizabeth Harrison

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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Marriage
Katharine Hepburn

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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Critics and Criticism
Dustin Hoffman

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Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
Friends and Friendship
Edgar Watson Howe

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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Critics and Criticism
Elbert Hubbard

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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Critics and Criticism
Samuel Johnson

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Children need models rather than critics.
Children
Joseph Joubert

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In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Critics and Criticism
Pauline Kael

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Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Critics and Criticism
Milan Kundera

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The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Critics and Criticism
Jean De La Bruyere

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The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Critics and Criticism
Lynn M. Little

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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Critics and Criticism
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Critics and Criticism
James Russell Lowell

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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
Books - Reading
James Russell Lowell

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Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Humankind
Niccolo Machiavelli

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People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Critics and Criticism
W. Somerset Maugham

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Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Critics and Criticism
Federico Mayor

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It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Critics and Criticism
Marshall Mcluhan

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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Critics and Criticism
H. L. Mencken

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun