Brewer's: Tabla Rasa

(Latin). A clean slate on which anything can be written.

“When a girl has been taught to keep her mind a tabla rasa till she comes to years of discretion, she will be more free to act on her own natural impulses.” —W. S. R.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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