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Date: 1603
"Yea, from the table of my memory / I'll wipe away all trivial fond records, / All saws of books, all forms, all pressures past, / That youth and observation copied there, / And thy commandment all alone shall live / Within the book and volume of my brain / Unmixed with baser matter."
preview | full record— Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
Date: c. 1603
"On waxen tablets you cannot write anything new until you rub out the old. With the mind it is not so; there you cannot rub out the old till you have written in the new."
preview | full record— Bacon, Sir Francis, Lord Verulam (1561-1626)
