〚Form.〛

(For replying to seekers after “opinions”)
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Experience has not taught me very much; still it has taught me that it is not wise to criticise a piece of literature, except to an enemy of the person who wrote it; then, that enem if you praise it, that enemy admires you for your honest manliness, & if you dispraise it he admires you for your sound judgment.