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That great dust-heap called history. - Augustine Birrell

That great dust-heap called history. – Augustine Birrell

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Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm. – Augustine Birrell

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Libraries are not made, they grow. – Augustine Birrell

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One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote–Alexander Pope. – Augustine Birrell

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The oppressed peoples can liberate themselves only through struggle. This is a simple and clear truth confirmed by history. – Kim Il-sung

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Happy the people whose annals are blank in history-books. – Thomas Carlyle, Life of Frederick the Great

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[T]hat is the triumph of history – truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist. – Jacques Barzun, Clio and the Doctors

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Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. – W.H. Auden, A Certain World

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