“The young are of age when they twitter like the old; they are driven through school to learn the old song, and, when they have this by heart, they are declared of age.”

—  Max Stirner , book The Ego and Its Own

Cambridge 1995, pp. 61-62
The Ego and Its Own (1845)

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