Thomas Bowdler quotes

  • In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.

  • David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.

  • Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.

  • I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

  • It is always in season for old men to learn.

  • Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.

  • Whoever is new to power is always harsh.

  • I am too inexperienced and ignorant to conduct myself with propriety in this town, where every thing is new to me, and many things are unaccountable and perplexing.

  • Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

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

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