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History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ou

History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. – Earnest Albert Hooten, The Twilight of Man

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Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may. – Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversation: Diogenes and Plato

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Our cultures obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics. – Sloane Crosley

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Almost the whole of history is but a sequence of horrors. – Nicolas Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations

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