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Quotes About Retentive

His comprehension is vast, his memory capacious and retentive, his discourse is methodical, and his expression clear.
~ Samuel Johnson
Her expression was oafish, but it was on the whole this quality that gave her face a certain retentive efficacy. She had the look of a gnome or prematurely vicious child. But underneath the suggestion of peculiar knowingness an apparent and immense credulity lurked.
~ Anthony Powell