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How to Improve the Memory

impress it upon the mind, you need give it no further attention, nor be concerned when you have occasion to use it. The fact will be so well known that you will have no trouble in knowing it again whenever you desire to produce it from its repository. Another interesting fact of a similar nature is that James Monroe, fifth president of the United States, also died on the anniversary of his country's birth. His death occurred five years after the death of his predecessors, and he was the fifth president of the United States. These facts will make it easy to remember that he departed this life in 1881. While these facts are so distinctive as to render them easy to memorize, all facts worth remembering possess some attribute that will enable an attentive person to lay hold of the distinguishing trait and recall the fact at

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