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

History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. – Thomas Carlyle

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Time is my greatest enemy. – Evita Peron

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each mans life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history. – Russell Banks

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There is little for the great part of the history of the world except the bitter tears of pity and the hot tears of wrath. – Woodrow Wilson

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