Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes,…

Charles Caleb Colton
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Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
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Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies. ✨ Charles Caleb Colton (1832). Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

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