Quote by Thomas Carlyle
History is the distillation of rumor. - Thomas Carlyle

History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. – Thomas Carlyle

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For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. – Virginia Woolf

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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. – Calvin Coolidge

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We are not makers of history. We are made by history. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction. – Martin Scorsese

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