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Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself. – Gertrude Stein

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[H]istory is the sextant of states which, tossed by wind and current, would be lost in confusion if they could not fix their position. – Allan Nevins, The Gateway to History

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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. – Russell Banks

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[W]hen a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. – Shailer Mathews, The Spiritual Interpretation of History

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