Thomas Bowdler Quotes

• Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.

  Thomas Bowdler

  Expression, Literature, Propriety

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• I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.

  Thomas Bowdler

  Daughter, Regret, Book

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