Quote by Max Beerbohm
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would ne

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. – Max Beerbohm

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You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. – Max Beerbohm

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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. – Max Beerbohm

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Human history in essence is the history of ideas. – H. G. Wells

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For what is history, but… huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were holding up a monument to the honor, rather than the infamy of our species. – Washington Irving, History of New York

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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

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