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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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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – George Eliot

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There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem. – Pat Robertson

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[History is] a tyranny over the souls of the dead – and so the imagination of the living. – William Carlos Williams

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Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice. – Will and Ariel Durant, Our Oriental Heritage

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