
“If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?”
Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg. Her Christening http://www.gerald-massey.org.uk/eop_hood_poetical_works_3.htm#115, st. 10 (1841-1843).
1840s
“If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?”
The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.”
Source: Sir William Osler : Aphorisms (1961), p. 134.
Wolf Am I! (And Shadow).
Brother, Sister (2006)
“There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.”
Source: Earthquake in the Early Morning
Section J of 26 Facts About Flesh and Ink
The Pillow Book
Source: 1960s, Counterblast (1969), p. 5
“A man who lived on the banks of the Niger should not wash his hands with spittle.”
Source: No Longer at Ease (1960), Chapter 1 (p. 17)
"The Crossing" http://www.ap.krakow.pl/nkja/literature/polpoet/mic_crim.htm.
Crimean Sonnets