Wilde

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“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.... I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)