Quote#Books & Reading
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet…
Quote byMary Augusta Ward · 1851–1920
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The History of David Grieve (1891), Book III, Ch. xvi, p. 428.
English (original)
We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realise all they tell us.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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