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We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.
Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.
The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
[Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]
The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
[Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
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 present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
