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History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expoun

History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves. – George Macaulay Trevelyan

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History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided. – Konrad Adenauer

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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. – Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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I think the materialist conception of history is valid. – Christopher Hitchens

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