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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. – Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953

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God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. – Pliny the Elder

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My soul is not a palace of the past… – James Russell Lowell, “A Glance Behind the Curtain”

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The past is not a package one can lay away. – Emily Dickinson

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Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead. – Henry Rollins

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