Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
Voltaire
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...
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B. C. FORBES Don't forget until too late that the business of life is not business but living.
BARRY C. FORBES Life is beautiful, but we often forget and decorate it with ugliness.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.
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MICHAEL MICHALKO We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.
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