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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that

Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. – Leo Tolstoy

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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy

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He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began. – Leo Tolstoy

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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world. – Tony Blair

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History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves. – George Macaulay Trevelyan

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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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So many people of color who made major contributions to American history have been trapped in the purgatory of history. – Henry Louis Gates

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