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“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.”
― Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

“Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really bad, the only interest I can derive from writing about it has to come from myself, from such display of intelligence, wit and malice as I can contrive. One cannot review a bad book without showing off.”
― W.H. Auden