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If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

P.D. James

If from infancy you treat children as gods, they are liable in adulthood to act as devils.

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About P.D. James

Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park, (3 August 1920 – 27 November 2014), known professionally as P. D. James, was an English novelist and life peer. Her rise to fame came with her series of detective novels featuring the police commander and poet, Adam Dalgliesh.