Excerpt from Curiosities and Criticism

Critics are not altogether a popular race. Their occupation, if it be honestly carried out, necessitates much fault-finding, and fault-finders are not universally liked. Critics have come to be thought, rightly or wrongly, exacting in their requirements, and exceedingly difficult to please, and people of this kind, whether in public or private life, are not, as a rule, much cared for. Your thoroughly popular man is he who likes everything, who is easily satisfied, who never grumbles, who sets up for himself no rigid standard of perfection, who is fettered by no severe canons of taste, and whose judgment is characterised by an elastic and accommodating comprehensiveness.

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