Quote by Rebecca West
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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It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. – Rebecca West

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History
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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. – Rebecca West

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. – William Hazlitt

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History is but the nail on which the picture hangs. – Alexandre Dumas, Catherine Howard

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I feel like Im too busy writing history to read it. – Kanye West

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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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