quicker that way too

I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

—Sydney Smith (1771-1845), essayist and clergyman, quoted by Hesketh Pearson in The Smith of Smiths: Being the Life, Wit and Humour of Sydney Smith (1934)

rejection slip

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

—Samuel Johnson