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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy.
[Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]
Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy.
[Fr., Oh le bon temps ou etions si malheureux.]
You have to know the past to understand the present.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my read more
Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
