"Give me the child for the first seven years and I will give you the man."
— Ignatius of Loyola

January 1, 1970

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Jesuit maxim widely attributed to Ignatius Loyola; according to Three Myths, by A. Beichman et al. (1981), p. 48, this saying was "attributed to him (perhaps mischievously) by Voltaire."