Dear Madame, you make an absurd, though common mistake in supposing that any human creature can help you to be an authoress, if you cannot become one in virtue of your own powers.
— Charles Dickens, letter to reader, Dec. 27, 1866
Dear Madame, you make an absurd, though common mistake in supposing that any human creature can help you to be an authoress, if you cannot become one in virtue of your own powers.
— Charles Dickens, letter to reader, Dec. 27, 1866