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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. - H.L. Mencken

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. – H.L. Mencken

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A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion. – H.L. Mencken

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Society
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H.L. Mencken
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. – H.L. Mencken

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Bores
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In human history, the desire for revenge and the desire for loot have often been closely associated. – John McCarthy

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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. – Karl Marx

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History is the daughter of time. – Lucien Febvre, The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century

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We proceed out of history into history again. – Sidney Alexander

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