• Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer 1613-1680
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. happened
2. enough
3. recall
4. detail
5. things
6. person

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Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person. by : Francois de la Rochefoucauld

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