There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asle…

Herman Melville
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There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep. ✨ Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition, p.681, Northwestern University Press
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There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep. ✨ Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, G. Thomas Tanselle (1987). Piazza Tales and Other Prose Pieces, 1839-1860: Volume Nine, Scholarly Edition, p.681, Northwestern University Press

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