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WT Sharpe · 12-31-2015, 10:05 PM

We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them, he will still feel as the famous woman did about ghosts, Je n'y crois pas, mais je les crains, — "I don't believe in them, but I am afraid of them, nevertheless".

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809 – 1894); American author, poet, and father of US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872).

12-31-2015, 10:05 PM	#2886
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them, he will still feel as the famous woman did about ghosts, Je n'y crois pas, mais je les crains, — "I don't believe in them, but I am afraid of them, nevertheless". — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809 – 1894); American author, poet, and father of US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872).