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It is said that old persons like to indulge in personal reminiscence. This would be useful if they did so to learn the lessons enclosed in it, but this is mostly not the case. Their memories of the past are only a clinging to, or bolstering of, their own egos.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 3 : Youth and Age > # 205