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 It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.
 [Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.]  
 It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.
 [Lat., Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.] 
 The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the 
names of their founders.  
 The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the 
names of their founders. 
A man must get a thing before he can forget it.
A man must get a thing before he can forget it.
It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.
 God of our fathers, known of old,
 Lord of our far-flung battle-line,
  Beneath whose awful Hand we read more 
 God of our fathers, known of old,
 Lord of our far-flung battle-line,
  Beneath whose awful Hand we hold
   Dominion over palm and pine--
    Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
     Lest we forget--lest we forget! 
 One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
 But came the waves and washed it away;
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 One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
 But came the waves and washed it away;
  Agayne I wrote it with a second hand,
   But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey. 
 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her 
cunning.  
 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her 
cunning. 
 We bury love,
 Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;
  That is a thing to weep for, not read more 
 We bury love,
 Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;
  That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. 
 God and the Doctor we alike adore
 But only when in danger, not before;
  The danger o'er, read more 
 God and the Doctor we alike adore
 But only when in danger, not before;
  The danger o'er, both are alike requited,
   God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.