There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. - Alexander Smith

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The belief that time is a linear, directed sequence running from A to B is a modern illusion. In fact, it can also go from B to A, the effect producing the cause.

Alexander Smith

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

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