Date: 1786
"Our minds are like blank paper, as a great philosopher has observed, and the first impressions they receive are generally the most permanent and powerful."
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Date: 1796
"He guarded my mind from imbibing any religious principles at all, under the notion of preserving it to maturity, like a rasa tabula, free from all prejudices."
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Date: 1797
"You are juvenile, and like unto a white sheet of paper, on which vice or righteousness may be impressed."
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