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There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. – Josh Billings

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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time. – Josh Billings

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Certainty
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About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. – Josh Billings

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

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Memory

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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Memory

The sense of smell can be extraordinarily evocative, bringing back pictures as sharp as photographs of scenes that had left the conscious mind. – Thalassa Cruso, To Everything There is a Season, 1973

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Memory

Memory itself is an internal rumour. – George Santayana, The Life of Reason

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Memory

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Between the figure and the shadow is where all the secret energy lies. – Terri Guillemets

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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough. – George Moore

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In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. – Will Durant

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