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Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
Time
Heartbreak
Love
Procrastination
Apology
Regret
Motivational
Inspirational
Inconsolable
Dream
Tempered
Things
Temperance

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