Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed… — St. Jerome
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
In the original Latin
Difficulter eraditur, quod rudes animi praebiberunt. Lanarum conchylia quis in pristinum colorem [al. candorem] revocet?
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Saint Jerome. "Letter CVII." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 4.
Original citation
Saint Jerome. Letter to Laeta. c. 403, sect. 4.