"Nothing awakens reminiscence like an aroma."
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Recollection
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"We have all forgot more than we remember."
"Write in recollection and amazement for yourself."
"Nothing can be so perfect while we possess it as it will seem when remembered."
"We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
"Immortality is the best recollection one leaves."
"The life of the dead consists in the recollection cherished of them by the living."
"Pleasant is the recollection of dangers past."
"This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret."