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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Intentions by Oscar Wilde: used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
ERNEST. There is something in what you say, but there is not
everything in what you say. In many points you are unjust.
GILBERT. It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves. But
let us return to the particular point at issue. What was it that
you said?
ERNEST. Simply this: that in the best days of art there were no
art-critics.
GILBERT. I seem to have heard that observation before, Ernest. It
has all the vitality of error and all the tediousness of an old
friend.
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