Quote by Ambrose Bierce
Historian. A broad -- gauge gossip. - Ambrose Bierce

Historian. A broad — gauge gossip. – Ambrose Bierce

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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. – Ambrose Bierce

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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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History attempts to provide society with an artificial collective memory. – Mark M. Krug, History and the Social Sciences

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History is a bath of blood. – William James, Memories and Studies

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Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. – Aldous Huxley

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