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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is read more
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
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.
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.]
Praise they that will times past, I joy to see
My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
Praise they that will times past, I joy to see
My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.
No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.
Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".
Those who misremember the past are pleased to repreat it as "proof.".
