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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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. – Samuel Butler

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One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once. – Samuel Butler

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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name. – Samuel Butler

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Im the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you dont believe it, check the cash register. – Mike Tyson

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Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and cant do to describe something like war or history. Im not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing. – Haruki Murakami

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If an historian were to relate truthfully all the crimes, weaknesses and disorders of mankind, his readers would take his work for satire rather than for history. – Pierre Bayle, Historical and Critical Dictionary

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History is the devils scripture. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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