Quote by Edith Sitwell
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. – Edith Sitwell

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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell

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When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. – Eugene V. Debs

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The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice their choice! – Dwight D. Eisenhower

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History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. – Karl Marx

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Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history. – Carter G. Woodson

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