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History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. - Law

History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. – Lawrence Durrell

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Clio may be the most austere and chaste of the Muses, but she has been known to come down informally from Mount Helicon in a mood so raffish that there are those who claim to have seen her with her slip showing. – Willis Thornton, Fable, Fact and History

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History

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule. – Jefferson Davis

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History

The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. – Michel de Montaigne, translated

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History

Part of what I enjoy about the theatre and acting is that sense of history. – Liev Schreiber

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I think there was a revolution in poetry, associated chiefly with Eliot and Pound but maybe it is of the nature of revolutions or of the nature of history that their innovations should later come to look trivial or indistinguishable from technical tricks. – Howard Nemerov

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