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

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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf

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

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