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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. – Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato

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Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis. – John Dewey

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Im a history nut. – Billy Joel

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Im a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I dont understand why in America its such a big deal that we wont read the Koran and we wont look at history. – Pat Robertson

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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards. – Walter Bagehot

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