Croly once asked me if I had read a certain book. I said, 'Yes, I had reviewed it.' 'What!' he exclaimed, 'do you read the books you review?' 'Yes,' I replied, 'as a rule I do.' 'That's wrong,' replied the Doctor, 'it creates a prejudice.'
From The Treasury of Modern Anecdote, ed. W. Davenport Adams (1881), p.123.