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

History is the distillation of rumor. – Thomas Carlyle

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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. – Thomas Carlyle

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In studying history we are finding out about ourselves, and in the last resort the natural sciences and even mathematics have the same final end. – Vivian Hunter Galbraith, An Introduction to the Study of History

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Radical historians now tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of the turkey. – Mason Cooley

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Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. – Louis D. Brandeis

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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? – John Guare

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