Ideas and opinions, like living organisms, have a normal rate of growth which cannot be either checked or forced beyond a certain point. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

Ideas and opinions, like living organisms, have a normal rate of growth which cannot be either checked or forced beyond a certain point.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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