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The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. - Samue

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution. – Samuel Johnson

Other quotes by Samuel Johnson

Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rattle, and the old man does not care for the young mans whore. – Samuel Johnson

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Generations
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The world is seldom what it seems to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities. – Samuel Johnson

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Dreams
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little. – Samuel Johnson

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Women
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Other Quotes from
Memory
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Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. – Thomas Fuller

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Memory

And even if you were in some prison, the walls of which let none of the sounds of the world come to your senses — would you not then still have your childhood, that precious, kingly possession, that treasure-house of memories? – Rainer Maria Rilke

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Memory

Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that – Mitch Albom

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Memory

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary. – Maurice Baring

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Memory

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The moment at which two people, approaching from opposite ends of a long passageway, recognize each other and immediately pretend they haven t. This is to avoid the ghastly embarrassment of having to continue recognizing each other the whole length of the corridor. – Douglas Adams

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The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. – Elias Canetti

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A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast. – Friedrich Schiller

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The literary man must needs be a thinking one, and every day he lives he becomes wiser—if wiser, then better—if better, then happier. – Charles Lanman, “Thoughts on Literature,” 1840

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