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Quote by Edward Gibbon
History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, a

History is little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind. – Edward Gibbon

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I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being. – Edward Gibbon

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Friendship
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Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. – Edward Gibbon

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Learning
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine and feast in commerce, first identified in antiquity and well understood in the Middle Ages, was not suddenly abolished in modern times. – James Buchan

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And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. – Julien Benda

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History is a vast early warning system. – Norman Cousins

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Whatever we do or fail to do will influence the course of history. – Arthur Henderson

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An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination. – Voltaire

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A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and theyre there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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