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Quotation from Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature) by Aristotle
“as a rule, slow people have a good memory, whereas those who are quick-witted and clever are better at recollecting”
Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature), On Memory and Reminiscence, Part 1, trans. J. I. Beare (1908)
The opening observation that memory and recollection are different powers, distributed differently among people.
Citation: "as a rule, slow people have a good memory, whereas those who are quick-witted and clever are better at recollecting" — Aristotle, Parva Naturalia (Short Treatises on Nature), On Memory and Reminiscence, Part 1, trans. J. I. Beare (1908). (id aristotle-parva-naturalia-q1)
