Famous Quotes | A child is beset with long...

A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back—it is already so far. - Alice Meynell
Attribution: Alice Meynell (1847–1922), British poet, essayist. “The Illusion of Historic Time,” Essays (1914).

Categories: Children, Essayist

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