In the old days of literature, only the very thick-skinned - or the very brilliant - dared enter the arena of literary criticism. To criticise a person's work required equal measures of erudition and wit, and inferior critics were often the butt of satire and ridicule.

  • -- Joanne Harris 乔安·哈瑞斯

在文学的旧时代,只有厚脸皮的人才敢进入文学批评的舞台。批评一个人的作品需要同样的博学和智慧,而拙劣的批评家常常成为讽刺和嘲笑的对象。

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You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

你永远不应该假定对它不是很明显,在你拥有力量,智慧也不做一个更可鄙的图相比,在尝试讽刺,他表明,他不明白,他会让他嘲笑的对象。

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

只有当理智对我们不利时,我们才不得不求助于嘲笑。

Erudition can produce foliage without bearing fruit.

博学能生叶而不结果子。