Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from …

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell, p.325
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Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. ✨ Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell, p.325

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