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If we could get hold of a complemental critic, a critic who saw what the age did not see, and who saw rightly what the age mistook, we should have a critic of inestimable value.
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Walter Bagehot
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Bagehot expresses the value of a critic who can see beyond the common perceptions of their time.
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