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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probabl

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour its probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are. – P. J. ORourke

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[I]t was that there are no simple lessons in history, that it is human nature that repeats itself, not history. – John Toland

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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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The subject of history is the gradual realization of all that is practically necessary. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The mists remain of the false glory that erupts from history. – Miguel de Unamuno, En Gredos

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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history. – Harold Wilson

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Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

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Flying back from New York, the flight attendant said God, I wished you were here yesterday, we had a stroke on the plane. I said, if I have a stroke on a plane, I hope the pretend doctor isnt the one on the plane. I want a real doctor. – Anthony Edwards

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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