Memory cheats us no less than hope by hazing over those things that we would fain forget; but who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?


Books and Men (1888)

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Memory cheats us no less than hope by hazing over those things that we would fain forget; but who that has plodded on to middle age would take back...

Memory cheats us no less than hope by hazing over those things that we would fain forget; but who that has plodded on to middle age would take back...

Memory cheats us no less than hope by hazing over those things that we would fain forget; but who that has plodded on to middle age would take back...

Memory cheats us no less than hope by hazing over those things that we would fain forget; but who that has plodded on to middle age would take back...