Quote#Children
When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his…
Quote byE. W. Howe · 1853–1937
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Travel Letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa (1913), p. 120..
English (original)
When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.
— E. W. Howe
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