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As to the past, there is but one good thing about it, & that is,
that it is the past -- we don't have to see it again. There is nothing
in it worth pickling for present or future use. I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering
and that was the fact that it is past -- can't be restored. |
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For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment
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| We steeped our thirsty souls in the reviving wine of the past, the pathetic
past, the beautiful past, the dear and lamented past; we uttered the names
that had been silent upon our lips for fifty years, and it was as if they
were made of music; with reverent hands we unburied our dead, the mates
of our youth, and caressed them with our speech; we searched the dusty chambers
of our memories and dragged forth incident after incident, episode after
episode, folly after folly, and laughed such good laughs over them, with
the tears running down ... - Autobiography of Mark Twain (University of California Press, 2010) |
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