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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals

History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies. – Alexis de Tocqueville, 1856

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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors. – Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations

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All history has been a history of class struggles between dominated classes at various stages of social development. – Friedrich Engels

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