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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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Through searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backwards, and finally he also believes backwards.

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I am the dream and the hope of the slave

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A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.

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What if this present were the world's last night?

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History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

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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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We can only know where we're going if we know where we've been.

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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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It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted. ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.

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I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called history is.

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In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense.

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

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Language is the archives of history.

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It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.

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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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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.

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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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We study history in order to intervene in the course of history.

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