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Frederic Raphael Quotes: The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
         

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.


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