“I turn over a new leaf every day," I said. "But the blots show through.”
Billy Liar, ch. 11
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Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 13.

Source: Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
“You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified

“I never yet touched a fig leaf that didn't turn into a price tag.”
Humboldt's Gift (1975), p. 159
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“In every hedge and ditch both day and night
We fear our death, of every leafe affright.”
Second Week, First Day, Part iii. Compare: "The sense of death is most in apprehension; And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies", William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, Act iii. Sc. 1.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 116.