Quotation by Mark Twain

It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910), U.S. author. first published in the North American Review, vol. 183, no. 601 (October 19, 1906). Mark Twain's Own Autobiography, ch. 4, ed. Michael J. Kiskis, University of Wisconsin Press (1990).
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