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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's good only for wallowing in.
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's good only for wallowing in.
Approximate author period: c. 1911 AD · modern
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- Katherine Mansfield
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- Approximate author period: c. 1911 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Katherine Mansfield: documented activity in 1911. Wikidata Q270632, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270632 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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