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

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

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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. – H.L. Mencken

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Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. – H.L. Mencken

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Taxes
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If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one. – Terry Eagleton

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. – George Bernard Shaw

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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? – Charles de Gaulle

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Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price. – Robert Orben

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On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. – Daniel Webster

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Ive always had great faith in people. – Wayne Newton

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In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure. – Malcolm X

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He that flatters you more than you desire either has deceived you or wishes to deceive. – Italian Proverb

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