"If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out."-Jane Austen-
Very eloquently said, Jane!
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Literary and true. Only when it fails you that you wonder where it's gone; otherwise, like your other senses, it is merely there to fulfill our whims.
Have we given thanks to the Lord for this yet today?
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