Date: 1854
"The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels."
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Date: April, 1871
"Constantly impressed ideas are brought back by the world around us, and if they are so often, get so tied to our other ideas that we can hardly wrench them away."
preview | full record— Bagehot, William (1826-1877)