Charles Dickens, Madeline House, Graham Storey (1977). “Letters: Edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey. Associate Editors: W.J. Carlton [and Others]”
Quoted in The Wit of Brendan Behan, ed. Sean McCann (1968). In the more famous form, "We are the people our parents warned us about," this appears in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1967).
Richard Salter Storrs (1875). “Conditions of Success in Preaching Without Notes: Three Lectures Delivered Before the Students of the Union Theological Seminary, New York, Januray 13, 20, 27: 1875; with an Appendix”, p.114