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Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemi

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. – George Eliot

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She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot

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

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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