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Quote by Augustine Birrell
That great dust-heap called history. - Augustine Birrell

That great dust-heap called history. – Augustine Birrell

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An ordinary man can… surround himself with two thousand books… and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy. – Augustine Birrell

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The history of man is the history of crimes, and history can repeat. So information is a defence. Through this we can build, we must build, a defence against repetition. – Simon Wiesenthal

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

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The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell. – Thomas Merton

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