Page:R L Stevenson 1917 Familiar studies of men and books.djvu/156

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Walt Whitman.

both take and leave, who cannot let a single opportunity pass by without some unworthy and unmanly thought, I should have as great difficulty, and neither more nor less, in recommending the works of Whitman as in lending them Shakespeare, or letting them go abroad outside of the grounds of a private asylum.