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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. – Aristotle

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History is the story of events, with praise or blame. – Cotton Mather

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I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor – which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest, as they say, is history. – Sidney Sheldon

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The historian has been the hearth at which the soul of the country has been kept alive. – John Morley, Notes on Politics and History

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I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by Gods Will, united in spirit and in aim. – Queen Elizabeth II

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