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    "It is my business to know things.  That is my trade."

    -- Sherlock Holmes

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Fielding hides his own opinions on the matter deep in Tom Jones: —

        Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to
        critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity
        than they really are. From this complaisance the critics have
        been emboldened to assume a dictatorial power, and have so far
        succeeded that they are now become the masters, and have the
        assurance to give laws to those authors from whose
        predecessors they originally received them.

        Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to
        critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity
        than they really are. From this complaisance the critics have
        been emboldened to assume a dictatorial power, and have so far
        succeeded that they are now become the masters, and have the
        assurance to give laws to those authors from whose
        predecessors they originally received them.

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