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Remembrances embellish life but forgetfulness alone makes it possible. (Quote by - General Enrico Cialdini)

Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things. (Quote by - Cicero)

Forget those things that aren't worth remembering. (Quote by - Tim Foley)

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. (Quote by - Doug Larson)

Our memory is like a shop in the window of which is exposed now one, now another photograph of the same person. And as a rule the most recent exhibit remains for some time the only one to be seen. (Quote by - Marcel Proust)

Don't remember what you can infer. (Quote by - Harry Tennant)

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)

Don't you remember, sweet Alice, Ben Bolt? Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown; Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile, And trembl'd with fear at your frown! (Quote by - Thomas Dunn English)

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. (Quote by - Friedrich Nietzsche)

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. (Quote by - Montaigne)

The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases. (Quote by - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne)

Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)

To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)

If you have to keep reminding yourself of a thing, perhaps it isn't so. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)

If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist. (Quote by - Enrico Fermi)

But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone. (Quote by - Euripides)

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds. (Quote by - Tryon Edwards)

I do perceive that the old proverb be not alwaies trew, for I do finde that the absence of my Nath, doth breeds in me the more continuall remembrance of him. (Quote by - Lady Anne Bacon)

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep. (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)

Memories are all we really own. (Quote by - Elias Lieberman)

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