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" Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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" Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. "

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