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, Lean’s Collectanea, vol. 3, p. 472 (1903). This source states the quotation is a Jesuit maxim. Unverified. See also No. 194. |
| SUBJECTS: | Children |