Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Antithesis
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IV - Memory and Design
“The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.”
Vol. II, bk. 4, ch. 2.
Recollections (1917)
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