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.)

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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