The safest kind of praise is to foretell that another will become great in some particular way. It has the greatest show of magnanimity and the least of it in reality.
William Hazlitt, James Thornton (1967). “A reply to 'Z.' A letter to William Gifford, esq. Prefatory remarks to Oxberry's New English drama. Liber amoris; or, The new Pygmalion. Characteristics. Preface and critical list of authors from Select British poets”
