I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Source: In The Smith of Smiths, ch. 3, by Hesketh Pearson, 1934.
-- Sydney Smith, (Jun 6 1771-1845), English clergyman, essayist; He was a leading preacher of his day who championed Catholic emancipation in Letters of Peter Plymley, 1807.