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"There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember."

Philip Dunne, American Screenwriter

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"There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember."

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Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of age very quickly through shipwreck and disaster."

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"My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down, she wants to be kissed."

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