E. Nesbit — a remark

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“Be generous of praise—it is the dew that waters the budding flowers of kindness and love and unselfishness: it is to all that is best in the child the true Elixir of Life.”

Presenting encouragement as nourishment for a child's best qualities · Essay, Wings and the Child, Chapter VIII: The Moral Code

About E. Nesbit

E. Nesbit

15 August 1858–4 May 1924

Edith Nesbit, who published most often as E. Nesbit, was born on 15 August 1858 at 38 Lower Kennington Lane in Kennington, then part of Surrey and now within south London. She died on 4 May 1924 at New Romney, Kent. In the years between those dates she became one of the most inventive writers for children in English…

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