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“Criticism is twofold: that which teaches us what we are to choose, and that which teaches us what to avoid”. –Lucian

“Like water, blood must run or grow scum”. –John Updike

“I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture”. –Matthew Arnold

“Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive prophets, when critically examined, turn out to be false”. –Kabir

“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it”. –George Saintsbury

“We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, and effort which no one can spare us”. –Marcel Proust