From Laurence Sterne's "The LIfe and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" Volume 2 (according to the latter editions) Chapter XLVIII. Here Tristram is speaking of his father:
--Prejudice of education, he would say, is the devil,--and the multitudes of them which we suck in with our mother's milk--are the devil and all.--We are haunted with them, brother Toby, in all our lucubrations and researches; and was a man fool enough to submit tamely to what they obtruded upon him,--what would his book be? Nothing,--he would add, throwing his pen away with a vengeance,--nothing but a farrago of the clack of nurses, and of the nonsense of the old women (of both sexes) throughout the kingdom.
