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What are critics but the thing to be? To save you from all those who not Only stay to help you judge the Sins of those who were the first? For the story is never told by All of those who came before. Whom Wish a dream just to clear the Actions of this plane away, new Time in which that nightmare plagued is What they so desperately tried. Please wish not to be a critic, nor One of those who came before, yet House empathy for both parties the Courts had ruled to be the last. The wish to be a bystander is to Wish to fall on ancient ground, to lay Upon the graves of ancestors, the Ones who brought around this curse Standing with the gift of old Time. We shall learn to not stand aside. "Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside." 'An Essay On Criticism' Alexander Pope

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