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

History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

Other quotes by Thomas Carlyle

The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. – Thomas Carlyle

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. – Thomas Carlyle

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History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. Youre looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues. – George H. W. Bush

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The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular. – Brian Eno

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The history of the world is the worlds court of justice. – Friedrich Schiller

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