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History is a great dust heap. - Thomas Carlyle, Obiter Dicta

History is a great dust heap. – Thomas Carlyle, Obiter Dicta

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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history. – Miguel de Unamuno, En Gredos

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A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life. – Allen Johnson, The Historian and Historical Evidence

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