Forgetting is the mind's way of pruning away the unnecessary... - Hermann Ebbinghaus

"Forgetting is the mind's way of pruning away the unnecessary so that the essential may flourish."

Hermann Ebbinghaus Wisdom

Psychologist German 1850–1909

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