"He lost his memory forty years before he died by a fever, and would repeat the same thought sometimes in the compass of ten lines, and did not dream of its being inserted but just before. When you pointed it out to him he would say, "Gads-so, so it is! I thank you very much: pray blot it out." He had the same single thoughts (which were very good) come into his head again that he had used twenty years before. His memory did not carry above a sentence at a time."
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Alexander Pope, as quoted in Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters, of Books and Men (1820) by Joseph Spence, "Spence's Anecdotes", Section IV. 1734...36. p. 160.
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William Wycherley
William Wycherley (c. 1640 – 1 January 1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period.
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