As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them.
PlutarchAs in the case of painters, who have undertaken to give us a beautiful and graceful figure, which may have some slight blemishes, we do not wish then to pass over such blemishes altogether, nor yet to mark them too prominently. The one would spoil the beauty, and the other destroy the likeness of the picture.
Plutarch