English physician and philanthropist (d. 1825), Birth: 11-7-1754, Death: 24-2-1825
1.
Those expressions are omitted which cannot with propriety be read aloud in the family.
Thomas Bowdler
2.
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the hands of his daughter, and therefore I have prepared the Family Shakespeare.
