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“A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.”
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- quote
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- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
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- b581300f15b9dddf1346c09ff5318f331957d21381eb0a146eacbb12aa33268d
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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