"There is no dull chapter. But he makes the hero too good. He seems to think that so long as Tom goes for a little miscellaneous fornication he will be saved from priggishness. I doubt if this is so, especially at the end, where Tom's angelicalness upon the misfortunes of Blifil is really a bit thick."
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Arnold Bennett, Journal for 19 August 1911, in The Journals of Arnold Bennett, ed. F. Swinnerton (1954)
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