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  • The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.

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    "Table-talk", Essay, 22, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 705-06, 1922.

  • The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

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    William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1498, Delphi Classics

  • The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.

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    William Hazlitt (1822). “Table-talk: Or, Original Essays”, p.143
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William Hazlitt

  • Born: April 10, 1778
  • Died: September 18, 1830
  • Occupation: Writer
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