Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist
Notes of August 1842, published in Charles Kingsley : His Letters and Memories of His Life (1883) edited by Frances Eliza Grenfell Kingsley, p. 65.
“What a child does when not told what to do is the final indicator of what and who that child is.”
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