you can't teach an old dog new tricks

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It is impossible, or almost impossible, to change people's habits or traits or mindset.

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Nearby phrases: you can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds, you can't say fairer than that, you can't take it with you, you can't tell a book by its cover, you can't unring a bell, you don't dip your pen in company ink

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