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Quote by Henry Glassie
History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a partic

History is not the past, but a map of the past drawn from a particular point of view to be useful to the modern traveler. – Henry Glassie

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No man is truly great who is great only in his own lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt, Table Talk, 1822

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Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

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Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they dont love themselves enough. – Tom Hiddleston

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