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Happy people have no history.

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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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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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One age is like another for the soul.

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Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

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This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

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History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.

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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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The wisdom of hindsight, so useful to historians and indeed to authors of memoirs, is sadly denied to practicing politicians.

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A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction.

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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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Historian - a broad-gauge gossip.

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The comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.

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History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

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The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value.

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