The truth is...that [fairy tales] are now associated with children because they are out of fashion with adults; have in fact retired to the nursery as old furniture used to retire there, not because the children had begun to like it but because their elders had ceased to like it.
...Am I to patronise sleep because children sleep sound? Or honey because children like it?
-C. S. Lewis, “Sometimes Fairy Stories May Say Best What's to Be Said,” On Stories and Other Essays on Literature, 47.
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