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The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

The joys I have possessed are ever mine; out of thy reach, behind eternity, hid in the sacred treasure of the past, but blest remembrance brings them hourly back.

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

The memory of past favors, is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful, but it soon fades away. - The memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

The palest ink is better than the best memory.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. - We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

There is a remembrance of the dead, to which we turn even from the charms of the living. These we would not exchange for the song of pleasure or the bursts of revelry.

There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States; of course, I am speaking only from memory.

Through the shadowy past, like a tomb-searcher, memory ran, lifting each shroud that time had cast o'er buried hopes.

To live in hearts we leave behind, Is not to die.

To want to forget something is to think of it.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.

We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember.

We forget because we must And not because we will.

Women and elephants never forget.


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