When a bad writer is inexact, even if he can look back on half a century of years, we charge him with incompetence and not with dishonesty.
一个拙劣的作家写得不准确,即使他已年过半百,我们也只说他能力不足,而不说他不诚实。
— Robert Louis Stevenson · Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers · Child’s Play —