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History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who werent there. – George Santayana

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Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. – George Santayana

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History does not unfold: it piles up. – Robert M. Adams, Bad Mouth

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We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time… to ask for an effort in the battle against debt. – Francois Hollande

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I dont have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so Im left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct. – Vivienne Westwood

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History takes time. History makes memory. – Gertrude Stein

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We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does. – Mary Gordon

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As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. – Oliver Goldsmith

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I went to a cafe that advertised breakfast anytime, so I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance. – Steven Wright

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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering. – Theodore Roosevelt

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