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- However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.
- Pliny the Younger (62 AD - 114 AD)
- The drug that heals our sorrows forgetfulness.
- Appianus
- The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
- Demosthenes (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
- Bible, James 1: 23-24
- Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
- Woodrow Wilson (1856 - 1924), in John Dos Passos, "Mr Wilson's War"
- Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.
(Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.) - Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973)
- There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
- Jack London (1876 - 1916), The Call of the Wild
- We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Lost and Found, 1992
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