"Fairy tales are not responsible for producing fear in children... Fairy tales do not give the child the idea of the evil or the ugly; that is in the child already, because it is in the world already. Fairy tales do not give a child his first idea of a bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear idea that a bogey may be defeated. The baby has known the dragon intimately ever since he had an imagination. What the fairy tale provides for him is a St. George to kill the dragon."
- G. K. Chesterton
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