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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.

William Makepeace Thackeray

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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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