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

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History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

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History is written by the winners.

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The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

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History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up.

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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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We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.

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Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.

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

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

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Every generation tailors history to its taste.

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History should be written as philosophy.

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History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

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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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History does not eliminate grievances. It lays them down like landmines.

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Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line.

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History is the invention of historians.

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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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