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The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

Bill Gates wants people to think he’s Edison, when he’s really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn’t right… wealth isn’t the same thing as intelligence.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I’ve received over the years.

Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake.

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour – people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them – but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing.

These critics with the illusions they’ve created about artists – it’s like idol worship. They only like people when they’re on their way up… I cannot be on the way up again.