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Lillian Hellman Quotes: The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.
         

The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.


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This page presents the quote "The past, with its pleasures, its rewards, its foolishness, its punishments, is there for each of us forever, and it should be.". Author of this quote is Lillian Hellman. This quote is about memories, forever, past, foolishness, punishment, rewards,.