Life Has Obliged Him To Remember So Much Useful Knowledge That He Has Lost Not Only His History, But His Whole Original Cargo Of Useless Knowledge; History, Languages, Literatures, The Higher Mathematics, Or What You Will - Are All Gone. - SearchQuotes

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Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

Albert J Nock

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