Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

Difficulter eraditur, quod rudes animi praebiberunt. Lanarum conchylia quis in pristinum colorem [al. candorem] revocet?

St. Jerome

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First impressions

Author

St. Jerome

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

403 400s 5th century

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Catholic saint Clergyman Christian Writer

From

Europe Roman Empire

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Original Citation

Saint Jerome. Letter to Laeta. c. 403, sect. 4.

Current Citation

Saint Jerome. "Letter CVII." Select Letters of Saint Jerome. Aeterna Press, 2015, sect. 4.

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