Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell wha

Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away among its treasured things. – Pierce Harris, Atlanta Journal

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory. – Chinese Proverb

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There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted. – James Branch Cabell

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Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us. – Oscar Wilde, “The Importance of Being Earnest”

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

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