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Date: 1755
"These simple ideas, offered to the mind, the understanding can no more refuse, nor alter, nor blot out, than a mirrour can refuse, alter, or obliterate, the images which the objects produce"
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Date: 1755
Heads overfull of matter, be like pens over full of ink, which will sooner blot, than make any fair letters at all.
preview | full record— Ascham's Schoolmaster [from Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language]