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The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead an

The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation. – G.R. Elton, The Practice of History

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it. – Alfred North Whitehead

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