| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8377 |
| QUOTATION: | Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charlotte Brontė (18161855), British novelist. Jane Eyre, ch. 29 (1847). |
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