" It’s important to keep in mind that art and literature belong to the last generation and to future generations as much they do to ours. We have no more right to edit or expurgate the classics to suit our tastes than the Victorians would have had to invade the Uffizi Gallery and paint a frock over Botticelli’s Venus. "

― Meghan Cox Gurdon , The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction