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Quote by Robert Frost
I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. – Robert Frost

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A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. – Robert Frost

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Robert Frost
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What is this talked-of mystery of birth but being mounted bareback on the earth? – Robert Frost

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History is the open Bible: we historians are not priests to expound it infallibly: our function is to teach people to read it and to reflect upon it for themselves. – George Macaulay Trevelyan

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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. – Barbara Tuchman

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Yeah, I read history. But it doesnt make you nice. Hitler read history, too. – Joan Rivers

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You dont hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. – Stephen Ambrose

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