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Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery. – Bruce Catton, Prefaces to History

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Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

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God cannot alter the past, though historians can. – Samuel Butler, “Prose Observations”

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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. – Walter Scott

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Does history repeat itself, the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce? No, that – Julian Barnes

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In the moment of our creation we receive the stamp of our individuality; and much of life is spent in rubbing off or defacing the impression. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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