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Errors such as are but acorns in our younger brows grow oaks in our older heads, and become inflexible.

Errors such as are but acorns in our younger brows grow oaks in our older heads, and become inflexible.

Approximate author period: c. 1643 AD · renaissance

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Author or tradition
Sir Thomas Browne
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Approximate author period: c. 1643 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1605–1682)
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Recorded source
Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)

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