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Lady Marguerite Blessington: People seem to...

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People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

Source: The Confessions of an Elderly Lady, 1838.
-- Lady Marguerite Blessington, (Sep 1 1789-1849), English socialite, writer; She is chiefly remembered for her Conversations of Lord Byron and for the intellectual circle which she headed in London.


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