Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
History is a set of lies agreed upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a set of lies agreed upon. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good. – Lyndon B. Johnson

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History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. – Johan Huizinga

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History

For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history offer an inexhaustible number of lives in many parts of the world, in all periods of time. – Louis LAmour

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In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history. – Albert Camus

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