"One can argue over the merits of most books... one
does not argue about The Wind in the Willows. The young man gives it to
the girl with whom he is in love, and if she does not like it, he asks her to
return his letters. The old man tries it on his nephew, and alters his will
accordingly. ... When you sit down to [read] it, don't be so ridiculous as to
suppose you are sitting in judgment on my taste, or on the art of Kenneth Grahame.
You are merely sitting in judgment on yourself. You may be worthy; I don't
know. But it is you who are on trial." A.A. Milne
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