"People consider the harms they inflict to be justified and forgettable, and the harms they suffer to be unprovoked and grievous."

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Forgetfulness is necessary to remembrance. Ideas are retained by renovation of that impression which time is always wearing away,and which new images are striving to obliterate. If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place.

— Samuel Johnson