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Every man's memory is his private literature
The things we remember best are those better forgotten
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
Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events
We consider ourselves as defective in memory, either because we remember less than we desire, or less than we suppose others to remember
The two offices of memory are collection and distribution
The true art of memory is the art of attention
Several sorts of memory exist in us; body and mind each possesses one peculiar to itself. Nostalgia, for instance, is a malady of the physical memory
Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good
Badness of memory every one complains of, but nobody of the want of judgment
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