“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.”

Marginalia http://www.easylit.com/poe/comtext/prose/margin.shtml (November 1844)
Variant: If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

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American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809–1849

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