"In creative work, that which is first must survive the spotlight of criticism and so becomes a target for the malicious tongues of the envious. The charlatan, the mountebank, the phony, unable to equal or better the best, tries to depreciate and destroy, thereby confirming the superiority of that which he degrades.
The best is advertised by the clamor of envy by the jackals."

*excerpt from the New Complete English Setter by Davis H. Tuck and revised by
Elsworth Howell and Judy Graef (page 199, Chapter 10)