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

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The East is marvellously interesting for tracing our steps back. But for going forward, it is nothing. All it can hope for is to be fertilised by Europe, so that it can start on a new phase.

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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

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History is nothing but a pack of tricks that we play upon the dead.

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History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

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History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times.

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We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

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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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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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The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.

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Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time.

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One age is like another for the soul.

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

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The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.

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

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It's so damned humiliating.

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