I would not for one moment be understood as objecting to criticism or failing to appreciate the importance….But it behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things, and not by the man who talks about how they ought or ought not to be done.

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“The Manly Virtues and Practical Politics,” Forum magazine, July 1894.

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