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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere worki

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. – Walter Scott

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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott

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What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them. – Voltaire, Philosophical Dictionary

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History

In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss. – Salman Rushdie

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History

When the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity. – Robert Anton Wilson

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History

All history becomes subjective; in other words there is properly no history, only biography. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: History

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History

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The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms. – Neal Boortz

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Theres no such thing as failure – just waiting for success. – John Osborne

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It didnt even occur to me that Im the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music. – David Byrne

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Do not choose your wife at a dance, but in the field among the harvesters. – Proverb

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