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History is the distillation of rumor. - Thomas Carlyle

History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

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Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth. – Thomas Carlyle

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Pleasure
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Thomas Carlyle
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortunes inequality exhibits under this sun. – Thomas Carlyle

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work
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Thomas Carlyle
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself. – Thomas Carlyle

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Men
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I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American. – George McGovern

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History

If you listen to Giuliani, its like nobody did anything to improve the city except him. Im not part of the history. Bloombergs not part of the history. Its like, he did it. Hes the only one. Thats why hes a little crazy. – Ed Koch

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History

History is a kind of introduction to more interesting people than we can possibly meet in our restricted lives; let us not neglect the opportunity. – Dexter Perkins

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History

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race. – Carter G. Woodson

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History

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