| I had rather you read fifty "Jumping
Frogs" than one Don Quixote. Don Quixote is one of the most exquisite
books that was ever written, and to lose it from the world's literature
would be as the wresting of a constellation from the symmetry and perfection
of the firmament--but neither it nor Shakespeare are proper books for virgins
to read until some hand has culled them of their grossness. - Letter to his future wife Olivia Langdon, 2 March 1869 |
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