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"Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within."

"But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages."

"I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me."

"A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender."

"Critical feedback shared in good faith is inherently a constructive dialogue. A "critique, a term that is both a noun and a verb, represents the systematical application of critical thought, a disciplined method of analysis, expressing of opinions, and rendering judgments."

"Praise to the undeserving is severe satire."
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