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    To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
    —Margaret Fairless Barber (1869–1901)

    To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
    —Margaret Fairless Barber (1869–1901)

    No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.
    English proverb, collected in George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs (1640)