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Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Thus education forms the common mind Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined.
Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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- Alexander Pope
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- Approximate author period: c. 1716 AD · early modern
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