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

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The greatest man in history was the poorest.

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I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

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Every generation tailors history to its taste.

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If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.

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

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False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news False history gets written every day ... the lesbian archaeologist watches herself sifting her own life out from the shards she's piecing, asking the clay all questions but her own.

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

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Historians are gossips who tease the dead

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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

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Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

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The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

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No one can read the history of astronomy without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton, Laplace, are not new men, or a new kind of men, but that Thales, Anaximenes, Hipparchus, Empodocles, Aristorchus, Pythagorus, Oenipodes, had anticipated them.

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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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If people could learn history, what lessons it might teach us!

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History contains little beyond a list of people who have accommodate themselves with other people's property.

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In analysing history do not be too profound, for often the causes are quite superficial.

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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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