Mark Twain Quotes About Criticism
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You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.
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I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.
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The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.
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It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.
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If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
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Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.
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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
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One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself
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I like criticism, but it must be my way.
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