Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 199 |
AUTHOR: | Author unknown |
QUOTATION: | Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards. |
ATTRIBUTION: | Author unknown.Vincent Stuckey Lean, Leans Collectanea, vol. 3, p. 472 (1903). This source states the quotation is a Jesuit maxim. Unverified. See also No. 194. |
SUBJECTS: | Children |