Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all
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London doesn't love the latent or the lurking, has neither time, nor taste, nor sense for anything less discernible than the red flag in front of the steam-roller. It wants cash over the counter and letters ten feet high.
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Ideas are, in truth, force.
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