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

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

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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. – H.L. Mencken

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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. – H.L. Mencken

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Life
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Sometimes – history needs a push. – Vladimir Lenin

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Culinary tradition is not always based on fact. Sometimes its based on history, on habits that come out of a time when kitchens were fueled by charcoal. – Alton Brown

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History

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. – Karl Marx

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All other forms of history – economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology – seem to me history with the history left out. – A.J.P. Taylor

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