Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are. (Henry Fielding)

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

Henry Fielding

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