Quote#Children
I lay it down as one of the distinctive characteristics of a good…
Quote byWalter Besant · 1836–1901
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: June, 1898: The Literary News, "Some Novels Loved of Novelists".
English (original)
I lay it down as one of the distinctive characteristics of a good story that it pleases--or rather, seizes--every period of life; that the child, and his elder brother, and his father, and his grandfather, may read it with like enjoyment.
— Walter Besant
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