From James Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides:
"Sir John having affected to complain of the attacks made upon his Memoirs, Dr. Johnson said, 'Nay sir, do not complain. It is advantageous to an authour, that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends."
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