I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Absences are a good influence in love and keep it bright and delicate.

Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar.

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

A pleasure is not full grown until it is remembered.

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.