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La Rochefoucauld 313: How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that ...
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How is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person? ["Old men who yet retain the memory of things past, and forget how often they have told them, are most tedious companions."--Montaigne, {Essays, Book I, Chapter IX}.]
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François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims (1665) · laroch_313
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