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

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Words of snow, which fell last year. – German saying

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One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. – Golda Meir

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Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird. – Paul Eldridge

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