Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic

Oscar Wilde
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Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. ✨ Oscar Wilde (2015). The critic as artist (low cost). Limited edition, p.69, Oscar Wilde
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