How it is that our memory is able to retain the least triviality
that happens to us,
and yet not good enough to recollect
how often we have told it to the same person?
-- Duc de La Rochefoucauld
that happens to us,
and yet not good enough to recollect
how often we have told it to the same person?
-- Duc de La Rochefoucauld
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