• Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

    Benjamin Disraeli: Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.
    Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.81