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If a secret history of books could be written, and the authors pri

If a secret history of books could be written, and the authors private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! – William Makepeace Thackeray

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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. – Gertrude Stein

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Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. – Robert Mugabe

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The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made. – John Terraine

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