Samuel Butler's Quote - God cannot alter the past, but historians can. – Samuel Butler

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God cannot alter the past, but historians can. - Samuel Butler

God cannot alter the past, but historians can. – Samuel Butler

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It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy — but he who has shown the better temper. – Samuel Butler

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It is tact that is golden, not silence. – Samuel Butler

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Tact, Tactfulness

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Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. – Samuel Butler

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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight. – Neil Armstrong

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History: gossip well told. – Elbert Hubbard, The Roycroft Dictionary

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A mere compilation of facts presents only the skeleton of History; we do but little for her if we cannot invest her with life, clothe her in the habiliments of her day, and enable her to call forth the sympathies of succeeding generations. – Hannah Farnham Lee, The Huguenots in France and America

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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. – Epicurus

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