“Boy of the neighbourhood? Hey?…Well! Behave yourself. I have a pretty large experience of boys, and you’re a bad set of fellows. Now mind!” said he, biting the side of his great forefinger as he frowned at me, “you behave yourself!” With those words, he released me – which I was glad of, for his hand smelt of scented soap.
– Charles Dickens
Great Expectations, Chapter 11. During Pip’s first visit to Miss Havisham’s house, he encounters a stranger on the stairs, who without knowing him makes these remarks to him. Mr. Jaggers the lawyer expresses a grossly unfair and prejudicial view of children that was prevalent in the Victorian England of Dickens.