Quote#Children
And no doubt it is easy thus to circumvent a child with catchwords,…
Quote byRobert Louis Stevenson · 1850–1894
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Weir of Hermiston (1896), Ch. 1, Life and Death of Mrs. Weir..
English (original)
And no doubt it is easy thus to circumvent a child with catchwords, but it may be questioned how far it is effectual. An instinct in his breast detects the quibble, and a voice condemns it. He will instantly submit, privately hold the same opinion. For even in this simple and antique relation of the mother and the child, hypocrisies are multiplied.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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