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Michel de Montaigne

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Nothing prints more lively in our minds than something we wish to forget.
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Book II, ch. 12.

 
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We let the years go; wash them clean with tears,
Leave them to bleach out in the open day,
Or lock them careful by, like dead friends' clothes,
Till we shall dare unfold them without pain, —
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