Quote by Desiderius Erasmus
Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? – Desiderius Erasmus

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