Quote by Mason Cooley
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word. – Mason Cooley

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Humor does not rescue us from unhappiness, but enables us to move back from it a little. – Mason Cooley

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It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every mans judgment. – Francis Bacon

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If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow. – Jonathan Sacks

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The amazing thing since so many variables enter into historical judgments, is not that historians disagree but that they agree as often as they do. – Louis Gottschalk, Understanding History

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He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be – a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones. – A. J. P. Taylor

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Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom. – Bodhidharma

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