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The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live read more
Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is
deprived, the power of making things that are past read more
Therefore Agathon rightly says: "Of this alone even God is
deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have
been."
