"Everybody is busy writing books. No age has had such an abundance of writers and commentators and such a want of knowledgeable and articulate men. What happens with these books Cicero describes in the same passage: The result is, he says, that such writers read their own books themselves along with their own circle, and none of them reaches any wider public than that which wishes to have the same privilege of scribbling extended to itself. This was unusual in Cicero’s time, but now it is a common practice. Everybody engages in it, because everybody, of course, wants the same privilege. Thus they encourage and admonish each other, scribbling foolishness, praising it, and grabbing for the praise of others who themselves are falsely praised."
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“On the Fame of Writers,” p. 49
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