Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
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Kahlil Gibran
Forgiveness: best for cleansing. Forgetfulness best for repetition.
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Soul Dancer
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory
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James Stephens
More Quotes By William Graham Sumner
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule.
The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.
Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them and know it but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want peace or war and then to get ready for what you want for what we prepare for is what we shall get.
