Thomas Campbell — a remark

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“Now Barabbas was a publisher.”

A wry jab at the commercial side of literature, playing on the biblical robber · Attributed remark (commonly linked to Campbell; also claimed for Byron, but Smiles records it of Campbell)

About Thomas Campbell

Thomas Campbell

27 July 1777–15 June 1844

Thomas Campbell was born on the twenty-seventh of July, 1777, in a house on Glasgow's High Street that has long since vanished beneath the changing face of the city. He was the youngest of eleven children born to Alexander Campbell, a merchant who had made and then lost a fortune trading with Virginia before the…

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