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Criticism of our contemporaries is not criticism; it is conversation.

Credited to Lemaître by Brander Matthews, see New York Times, April 2, 1922.


The pressure of public opinion is like the pressure of the atmosphere; you can't see it—but, all the same it is sixteen pounds to the square inch.

Lowell—In an interview with Julian Hawthorne; see article by Brander Matthews in New York Times, April 2, 1922.