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"Give me your child until he is 9 and he will be mine for life".

Posted by Bruce Kahl on November 15, 2001

In Reply to: Quote posted by david on November 15, 2001

: Who said "Give me your child until he is 9 and he will be mine for life".

I googled your phrase in all sorts of combinations and found many different sources:

communism
Jesuits
some religion
"a wise pope"
a bishop

In other words, I found nothing except a whole bunch of maybes.