"There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so"

This quote by Richard Brinsley Sheridan speaks to the power of option and the capability to forget. He suggests that it is easy to forget someone if one picks to do so. He speaks from personal experience, as he has forgotten his "bad, dear uncle" as if he had actually never ever existed. He suggests that he felt it was his task to forget his uncle, recommending that he had a moral obligation to do so. This quote speaks with the concept that we can choose to forget, which it is possible to do so. It likewise recommends that forgetting can be an ethical act, and that it can be done out of a sense of duty. This quote speaks with the power of option and the ability to forget, and the idea that forgetting can be a moral act.