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Quote by Thomas Hardy
My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is p

My argument is that War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading. – Thomas Hardy

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The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him. – Thomas Hardy

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Religion
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Thomas Hardy
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Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. – Thomas Hardy

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Success
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Thomas Hardy
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It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs. – Thomas Hardy

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A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. – David Hume

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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasnt that terrible. – Doris Lessing

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Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos. – Thomas A. Bailey

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If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one. – Terry Eagleton

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