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.
Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.5
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.