“Wisely was it written: ‘Let him that desireth oblivion confer benefits—but the memory of an injury endureth for ever.”

— F. Anstey

Source: The Brass Bottle (1900), Chapter 4, “At Large”

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English novelist and journalist 1856–1934

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