The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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