“A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he was born.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
More likely attributable to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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“What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.”
Children for Adoption (1964). Ch. 3
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