in second childhood
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Our civilization has outgrown them, and will not, even in second childhood, take to such playthings.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
Why, the man must be in second childhood.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
Doge! this vacillation is unworthy A child; if you are not in second childhood, Call back your nerves to your own purpose, nor Thus shame yourself and me.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Ernest Hartley Coleridge
