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It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history a

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk. – Rebecca West

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Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. – Rebecca West

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Life
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There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience. – Rebecca West

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Experience
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I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. – Rebecca West

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Pleasure
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History
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A chronicle is very different from history proper. – Howard Nemerov

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History

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. – C. S. Lewis

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History

I realise that I do not change the course of history. I am an actor, I do a movie, thats the end of it. You have to realise we are just clowns for hire. After I had success it was great, at first, not to worry about money. It was on my mind when I was growing up. – Leonardo DiCaprio

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History

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce. – Karl Marx

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History

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People can die of mere imagination. – Geoffrey Chaucer

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Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that youre hopefully gaining wisdom and youre starting to watch things with a better overview. – Sheryl Crow

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Wisdom

When a mans best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. – Edward Abbey

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That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria. – Edward Grey

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