“Children are like men, the experience of others does not help them.”

— Alphonse Daudet, book Jack

Les enfants sont comme les hommes, l'expérience d'autrui ne leur sert pas.
Jack: mœurs contemporaines (1876; repr. Paris: E. Dentu, 1877); Laura Ensor (trans.) Jack (London: Dent, 1896) vol. 1, p. 83.

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