Word: casks
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Dates: during 1921-1921
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...read all through the works they are called upon to criticise. They do not. Or at least they should not. If they did they would become confirmed misanthropes. . . . Nor is it necessary. To know the vintage and quality of a wine one need not drink the whole cask. . . . I am aware that there are many honest workers in painting as well as in literature who object to criticism entirely. They are quite right. Their work stands in no intellectual relation to their age. It brings us no new element of pleasure. It suggests no fresh departure of thought, or passion...