Quote#Wisdom
Oh that it were my chief delight
Quote byJane Taylor · 1783–1824
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: For a Very Little Child, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Bartlett's notes this work to be written by Ann Taylor..
English (original)
Oh that it were my chief delight To do the things I ought! Then let me try with all my might To mind what I am taught.
— Jane Taylor
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