If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.


Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan (ed. 1823)

Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.