Of literary criticism You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables. (Samuel Johnson)

Of literary criticism You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.

Samuel Johnson

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