I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself — as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Joseph Addison Quotes

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself — as the hangman is...

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself — as the hangman is...

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself — as the hangman is...

I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself — as the hangman is...