Richard Holt Hutton quotes
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“Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.”
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“Here is the mistake of the cut-and-dried man of culture. He goes about with the secret of having learned to appreciate the "grandstyle." He has lived in Homer till he can recall the roll of that many-sounding sea. He has pored over the lofty and pictorial thought of Plato till he begins to pique himself upon its grandeur. His fancy has been fed on the quaint old-world genius of Herodotus, his judgment on the melancholy wisdom of Tacitus and the complacent cynicism of Gibbon--and of all this he is conscious and proud.”
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“In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.”
-- Richard Holt Hutton
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“The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.”
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“He who slings mud generally loses ground.”
Source : "Best Quotes of '54, '55, '56" edited by James Beasley Simpson, (p. 58), 1957.
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“Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.”
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Source : Alan Barth, James David Barber (1965). “Heritage of Liberty”
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“Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.”
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Source : "Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote". content.time.com. January 26, 1959.
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“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.”
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