"Let it (what you have written) be kept back until the ninth year. [Lat., Nonumque prematur in annum.]"

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I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley