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Critics must have been created on the seventh day. Because if God had created them on the first day, what on earth would they have done?
• March 8, 1863; translation from Robert Baldick Dinner at Magny's (London: Victor Gollancz, 1971) p. 77.
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Évidemment, les critiques n'ont été créés que le septième jour. S'ils avaient été créés le premier, qu'auraient-ils eu à faire?

— Goncourt brothers

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Évidemment, les critiques n'ont été créés que le septième jour. S'ils avaient été créés le premier, qu'auraient-ils eu à faire?" in the context of "Critics must have been created on the seventh day. Because if God had created them on the first day, what on earth would they have done?
• March 8, 1863; translation from Robert Baldick Dinner at Magny's (London: Victor Gollancz, 1971) p. 77." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Goncourt brothers" (Quotes, Journals: Quotations in the original French are cited from Journal des Goncourt (Paris: Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1888-1896), 9 vols.) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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About Goncourt brothers

The brothers Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt (May 26 1822 – July 16 1896) and Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt (December 17 1830 – June 20 1870) were French writers who, in a lifelong collaboration, produced a number of histories, novels and works of art criticism. They are now chiefly famous for their Journals, kept from 1851 to 1895.