Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal my

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

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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. – Mahatma Gandhi

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