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"Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it."
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"Every time the long-forgotten people of the past are remembered, they are born again!"

"To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught."

"To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories."
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"It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is always aspiring and going beyond its strength."

"In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum."

"Marriage happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out."

"Difficulty is a coin which the learned conjure with so as not to reveal the vanity of their studies and which human stupidity is keen to accept in payment."
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