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History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology. – W. H. Auden

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I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm. – Calvin Coolidge

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Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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The study of history is the playground of patriotism. – George M. Wrong

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