We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the …

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them... ✨ The Poet at the Breakfast Table. Book by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1872.
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