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The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

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History is not written in the interests of morality.

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History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

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What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

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If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

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Language is the archives of history.

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It's a great historical joke that when the Spanish met the Aztecs, it was a blind date made in serve-you-right heaven. At the time, they were the two most unpleasant cultures in the entire world, and richly deserved each other. Still, the story of how stout Cortes blustered, bullied and bludgeoned his way to collapsing an entire empire with a handful of contagious hoodlums is astonishing.

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History is the invention of historians.

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The goal of female education must invariably be the future mother.

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History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.

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Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work.

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The thirst for equality can express itself either as a desire to draw everyone down to one's level, or to raise oneself and everyone else up.

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Do what you will this life's a fiction, And is made up of contradiction.

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They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

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Kings are the slaves of history.

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We had to do what we had to do - Britain is great again.

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The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

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History is indeed the witness of the times, the light of truth.

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The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

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The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible.

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