Quote#Wisdom
You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy…
Quote byStephen Leacock · 1869–1944
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Literary Lapses (1910), How to Make a Million Dollars.
English (original)
You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?
— Stephen Leacock
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