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People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.
-John Fowles
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People Who Teach You Cram Old Ideas,

John Fowles
People who teach you cram old ideas, old views, old ways, into you. like covering plants with layer after layer of old earth; it's no wonder the poor things so rarely come up fresh and green.
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