Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can becom…

Thomas Merton
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Grains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees. ✨ Thomas Merton (1993). The Courage for Truth: Letters to Writers, p.293, Macmillan
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