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

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

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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. – H.L. Mencken

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I normally ignore the History Channel. – Diablo Cody

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History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it. – Theodor Adorno

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Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe. – John Polkinghorne

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History is a set of lies agreed upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. – Antonin Artaud

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