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Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will – are all gone. – Albert J. Nock

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