"One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation."
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality (1831), Vol I Chapter 14
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