"Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason."

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It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of critic, every writing critic is bound to show himself capable of being a writer; for if he be apparently impotent in this latter kind, he is to be denied all title or character in the other.

— Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury