It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its function without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present. - Samuel Johnson

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Samuel Johnson: "It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its function without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present."

Samuel Johnson's Quotations

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Afflictive	Encroach	Encumbrance	Forgetting
Function	Happiness	Human	Longer
Might	Mind	Once	Past
Perform	Present	Remembrance	Taught
Upon	Useless	Without

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