I used to be afraid of losing my memory. What I wouldn't give to forget a thing or two now.
Memory gives moments immortality, but forgetfulness promotes a healthy mind. It's good to forget.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
Tell me and I forget,
teach me and I remember,
involve me and I learn.
By the 1980s Benjamin Franklin was incorrectly receiving credit for an instance.
But be contented: when that fell arrest
Without all bail shall carry me away,
My life hath in this line some interest,
Which for memorial still with thee shall stay.
When thou reviewest this, thou dost review
The very part was consecrate to thee:
The earth can have but earth, which is his due;
My spirit is thine, the better part of me:
So then thou hast but lost the dregs of life,
The prey of worms, my body being dead,
The coward conquest of a wretch's knife,
Too base of thee to be remembered.
The worth of that is that which it contains,
And that is this, and this with thee remains.
We will be remembered as in "Brother" — Bodrova!