I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at …

Umberto Eco
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I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom. ✨ Umberto Eco (2007). Foucault's Pendulum, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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