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Quotation from A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Children possess an unestimated sensibility to whatever is deep or high, in imagination or feeling, so long as it is simple likewise.”
A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, Preface (Project Gutenberg eBook #32242)
Hawthorne explains that he has not written down to children, because they respond to depth and loftiness when it is simply told.
Citation: "Children possess an unestimated sensibility to whatever is deep or high, in imagination or feeling, so long as it is simple likewise." — Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys, Preface (Project Gutenberg eBook #32242). (id a-wonder-book-q1)
Portrait: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mathew Benjamin Brady, Public domain.
